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**majestictwelve** · 11-23-2010, 06:37 PM

The only way to 100% be sure information on a harddrive cannot be recovered is to destroy the drive. Erasing simply isn't enough. On Macs we have a 35 x erase, which scrubs the disk 35 times. It's thought that the FBI might still be able to recover data from it.z

11-23-2010, 06:37 PM	#5
majestictwelve Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 515 Senior Member	The only way to 100% be sure information on a harddrive cannot be recovered is to destroy the drive. Erasing simply isn't enough. On Macs we have a 35 x erase, which scrubs the disk 35 times. It's thought that the FBI might still be able to recover data from it.z
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