Stephen Rowles wrote: > Getting the correct circuit board, when it has been disposed of separately > from the drive, will be hard and with a physically damaged platter you'd > need to use some seriously specialist tools to even begin to start getting > the data back... and then you'd discover I'd wiped it anyway.
Standard (but expensive) physics lab equipment can recover data unless they have been corrctly wiped. This is because the effects of two (possibly more) writes/erases can be detected by things such as a TEM. OK I don;t have access to a TEM but I used to know a "man who can". Also some data recovery companies will recover data from raw/damaged disk platters. > I've done this with all my drives for years... nice to see my efforts now > confirmed by the BBC as being a "good thing"(tm)! Given the BBC's record I expect a lobbying backhander from the disk manuf association for this article - after all the BBC has to make money these days and harrassing people who do not want to watch TV is no longer working as well as it used to. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
