[ale] Drive recovery

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

About 10 years or more ago, I used one of those drive recovery services. 
Yes, expensive, but not all that expensive. Seems like we had a discusion 
of sorts along the lines of secure deletion a year or two ago. I _still_ 
like the idea of floating the platters in HF, although there are 
hazzardous waste issues.

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Mark Wright wrote:

> I have seen advertisments that claim to recover any drive but the  
> cost is incredible.  Maybe the data security issue is a bit in the  
> paranoid camp.  It is better to err on the side of caution but does  
> this "king have no clothes"?
> 
> 
> On Jun 8, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> 
> > Mark,
> >
> >    I'm glad that I'm not the only one struggling with this.  I've  
> > had a number of occasions where I've accidentally deleted something  
> > (not 'secure' deleted it, mind you), and had little or no success  
> > getting it back.  I've since been looking for this easy way that I  
> > had assumed everyone but me knew to recover files that weren't  
> > deleted securely.
> >
> > Mark Wright wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I have a drive that I would like to recover data from.  Reading  
> >> the  discussion about secure deleting of data was making me  
> >> think.  This  drive has nothing wrong except the table of contents  
> >> can't be read  and I cannot find any program or technique to read  
> >> any data off it.   If this is a security problem why isn't it  
> >> easier to read a damaged  disk?
> >>
> >> I purchased a program called Data rescue that has saved  
> >> unreadable  zip disks for me but it cannot decode the data on this  
> >> disk.  Data  rescue reads blocks of data into memory and compares  
> >> it to known  format until it recognizes something.  I have let it  
> >> run for weeks  with no success.  I suppose too much formatting  
> >> info is missing.  I  know the data is laying out there to be  
> >> read.  Anyone know of any  utilities to examine bits on a disk?   
> >> This is  a Mac OS9 formatted  disk, if it makes any difference.
> >>
> >> If it is this hard to pull any data off a corrupt disk I would  
> >> say  that writing random data all across a hard drive to secure  
> >> delete is  a waste of time.  Nobody would go through what I have  
> >> gone through to  read this disk on a used purchase or a salvage  
> >> disk  if they did not  know something valuable was there.
> >>
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