Re: Reinitialized HD Probs...

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 00:00

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Larry Stoter <LPS@teknesis.demon.co.uk> wrote:

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> (Re) initialization for practical purposes wipes a hard disk completely
> and nothing that was on it is retrievable (for the ordinary user - GCHQ
> Cheltenham can probably do it!).

Replace `probably' with `certainly' - recovering data from formatted
drives is something that's offered as a commercial service; I rather
suspect the spooks are at least as good at this as the commercial data
recovery firms.

btw, doesn't initialising a Mac HDD just destroy the directory structure
etc., leaving the actual data on the disc intact?  (Not that this
matters unless you're worried about security)

Rowland.

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