Antonio Olivares: >> As to combat that, I do not know, some say use a >> Magnet and put it next to the hard drive that you want >> to be erased for good. By doing that according to >> some there is no way in the world that the FBI can get >> your data. I do not know how true the above statement >> is, but many people that know about computers have >> suggested this. Aaron Konstam: > I tend to use a 5 lb hammer. Magnets are for sissies. ;-) I had lots of fun doing things that you shouldn't do to an expensive hard drive that needed wrecking. Shotput onto a concrete floor, hurling it as far as I could in the garden, disassembling the mechanism (not easy when you don't have the appropriate screwdriver), and so on. I let my nephew loose on the last one, he wrenched the thing apart through brute force, and removed the platter with a pair of vice grips. It didn't look anything like it's original shape. ;-) -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
