On Sunday 06 August 2006 13:14, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>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.

Well, now, theres always that handy-dandy 4 lb blacksmiths maul.  Doesn't 
everyone have one of those?  ISTR I have 2, one for each hand if I really 
need to work something over.  Unforch, my ambi-dexterity in former years 
seems to have gone away over the last 10 or so.

:-)

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