If someone wants to spend enough money on the problem, then they still can retrieve most of the original data.
OTH, I know of another government agency that shall remain unnamed that just puts the drives in a furnace and melts them down to slag. Their data is guaranteed unrecoverable.
If you're looking for a quick and easy ( and permanent ) method, then get your handy drill and make about 4 holes completely through the drive casing, the plate, and out the other side. That will stop everybody but the extremely well financed snoopers.
Cheers,
James
At 03:26 PM 2/14/2009 -0500, you wrote:
Karl,
What do you do to erase all the data completely? Years ago I heard that the (US) CIA wrote over the entire drive three times before throwing them away. I have a 4.5 gig drive that I can't get at a secret partition on it. Even log formatting it doesn't erase the partition. I believe it is a partition from a JAZ drive disk that I copied on to the 4.5 gig drive. The JAZ drives disk had secret partitions that allocated the extra good sectors hidden on the drive so it would never have any bad sectors in its guarantee one gig forever
Roy
