[Ilugc] Overwriting hard disk
- From: knura@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Wed Dec 10 23:47:07 2008
On Wednesday 10 Dec 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
Also if the person who buys your disk wants to analyse it
magnetically and has the equipment to do so :) then this is not
enough.
I can see how data can be "recovered" if one just deletes the files from
the filesystem and not obliterate the contents from the disk platters.
What would the equipment find, if I have written each and every byte on
the disk with zeros?
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Arun Khan
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