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Patricia Gibbons <wa6ube@antispam.ix.netcom.com> wrote:

If this is the case, just buy some blank tapes
of the same type they gave you, and give them
the blank tapes. Keep the ones you have with
the backed up data.

Popeye wrote:
 
 Ok people I'm sorry if this is off topic but I have a slight problem
and I
 wondered if anyone could help me out.
 Before Christmas I bought a new computer system which subsequently
turned
 out to be ex display. After many arguments the store agreed to give
me �200
 worth of goods for my inconvenience with which I purchased an Iomega
ditto
 drive and cartridges. After further messing around the store had to
re
 format my hard drive and while doing so maliciously password
protected the
 system. After further arguments I returned the system.
 
 The store is now demanding the return of the Ditto drive and the
tapes which
 contain all of my confidential back ups and I am shortly to go to
court to
 sort the matter out.
 
 My question is this : I am using the argument that even if I wipe
these
 cartridges there is no way that I can be sure that it is impossible
for any
 data to be recovered off of them.
 
 Is there any way that this will stand up in court. Personally I would
prefer
 to crush the cassettes and shred the tapes to be sure but I could end
up
 being charged for destroying the stores property.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Steve Coath

I agree with the answer above, but just a note concerning your
original question.  My company used to let an employee who attended a
local university take their old reel-to-reel tapes, bulk erase them
and remove all labels then donate them to the university.  Good tax
write off and PR.  Then the security department stepped in and said
they could not be absolutely sure all data was gone and that the tapes
had to be physically destroyed.

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