[GRLUG] Disk scrubber

[Michael Mol]

On 7/25/06, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/24/06, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I read somewhere that shred's "doing more" is targeted at older-style
> > hard drives, like FM, MFM and others, and most of its routines aren't
> > any more effective on a modern disk than a simple overwrite.
> >
> > In essence, most of shred's passes were each designed for a different
> > style drive.
> >
> > Source:
> > http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
>
> Possible.  However, I have used some professional data recovery
> software and witnessed data recovered from a 0'd drive (0'd by WD
> Diagnostics Disk).  Extra steps are welcome in my opinion.
>
> --tim

Did that work by reading 0'd sectors, or by reading reallocated
sectors?  Just curious.

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