shredding files on a flash drive

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Jan 25, 2008 1:50 PM, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> It would appear sections 4.1.4 and 4.2.1 cover what I was describing.
> As I mentioned in a previous note, it would take a fair amount of
> effort, as described in those section.  Also, I was not referring to
> over-written or erased disks.  Simply recovering data, from drives where
> some part of the hardware, other than the platters, has been damaged is
> what I was referring to.  Those two sections cover it nicely.  Bottom
> line, it is possible to recover data after the platters have been
> removed from the drives.  Also W.R.T. the "tracking data", yes it is
> written on every disk, unlike the old disk pack drives where you had one
> servo head, which provided tracking for the entire drive.  The data
> clock is also embedded in the data, which means so long as the head can
> get a decent signal, the data can be recoverd.

Right, but still, misaligned platters cannot be recovered :-)
Correctly aligned platters do have a chance...

> One thing everyone has to bear in mind, is that data recovery is a lot
> more expensive than backups.

I think we can both agree on that!  Have a nice weekend :-)
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