> Yes, it can be done.. it would cost about 100k per drive and > the ability to access an electron scanning microscope. At 30 > times I highly doubt they could recover anything of any value > anyway. Using most commercially available products like > "Encase", you can recover files that have been deleted, but > not overwritten. Once the data is overwritten you are getting > into using tools which are not available to the general > public as far as I am aware. > > Mike >
This is the reason that the standard destroying drives that contain classified material is the physical destruction of the drive. I am not talking hitting the controller board with a hammer even, the platters need to be destroyed. From what I remember reading on this list, the prefered methods are incineration, and / or a bucket of a strong acid.
