On 10/6/05, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 01:44 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > the company where I work (with Windows) is evaluating a copy protection > > product that stores info somewhere on the HDD where the [1] user cannot > > touch it, [2] a format will not erase it, [3] and Norton Ghost will not find > > it. > > 1) No such animal. > 2) Ah - the bootblock, as others have mentioned. > 3) Of course, that doesn't say anything about Ghost v$(current + 1). > > To be blunt, your vendor is lying to you.
I'm not quite so unbelieving. I mean there are always ways to get at data, hell, you could just rip the drive out and take a hex image. But that isn't the point. There are software and hardware devices which can do this for you, and their claim could be true to a certain extent. There are a few other places to hide data: servo tracks, and tracks where data about bad sectors are kept, but this sometimes requires hardware to write to it. Just my two cents on an interesting subject:) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
