On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 03:14:40PM +0100, Laurence Darby wrote:
> Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:41:39AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> > > > I've had quite good luck doing poor man's data recovery.  Boot the
> 
> This is besides the point, but that wont work, and I'm not sure if you
> completely understand the situation. I *DON'T* want data to be
> recovered from the drive, and because I'm returning it under warranty, I
> want the data on it to be destroyed.
> 

I wonder about returning it under warranty.
If the data has sufficient sensitivity, it might be easiest
to eat the cost of a new replacement drive.  The net-cost
would be reduced by the time spent trying to destroy the data.  

If you do retain it, are there mechanical shredders that would
chew up a disk drive?  Yeah, I know there are, just are they
easily and cost effective to consider.

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