Dale wrote:
> Grant wrote:
> 
>>
>>Thanks Peter.  That is quite contrary to what most of the other posts
>>in this thread are saying.  Those are all just rumors and myths?
>>
>>- Grant
>>
>>  
>>
> 
> 
> I think we all know it can be done. 

No, we don't.

> Governments do it all the time. 
> Data recevery people do it too.

Do they? Why don't they advertise this?

> Years ago I worked at a computer place
> and the hard drive crashed.  The heads physically pulled up the magnetic
> media in a couple places.  They still got almost 80% of the data back. 

AGAIN: That's a died hard disk. That's *COMPLETELY* different
matter. And if you read what he wrote, you'll find that he
also said that recovering data from died hardware is possible.

> I'm sure the NSA, CIA and a few others can get data back off just about
> anything.  It's just a matter of how much money you want to spend and
> how much time you want to put into it.

Interesting point, though - if your data is worth just a
few thousand bucks, than it will most of the time not make
sense to waste the money on it.


Alexander Skwar
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