Still recoverable. I have dealt with pretty badly burnt disks that we recovered data off. Really the grinder is the way to go.
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 02:14:53PM -0500, Christopher Linn wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 12:25:02PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:25:25AM -0800, Jon wrote: > > > hi > > > > > > I see a lot of programs that are available to clean up the disks for > > > Windows OS. Not wipe a disk but clean up deleted files so they cannot be > > > recovered. > > > Is there any program for OpenBSD that will clean up the disks so that > > > deleted files cannot be recovered. > > > > > > (not looking to delete a file securly - but to wipe the disk clean of > > > deleted file with out affecting the OS) > > > > > > -jon > > > > Grind them up. There is nothing else you can do to "permanently" wipe > > disks. Residual magnetism is always there provided good enough > > equipment. If your data is that sensitive there is nothing else but the > > grinder. > > > > put a wood furnace in you garage, get a good hardwood fire going, pop > the disk in there, and stoak it again in 2 hours. there you go. > > cel > > -- > Christopher Linn <celinn at mtu.edu> | By no means shall either the CEC > System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable > Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I > Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.
