I agree with using the command to try to wipe the drive, but as a person who has sent in drives under warranty before. You physically break the seals on the old one and you pay for the new one, no warranty. I have disassembled drives for friends business's before and if you are needing to magnetically wipe it, I would either put in inside a coil of wire and apply current to it (school science electromagnet) or look up metal recycling in your area. They either use cranes or electromagnets or both, if they use magnets, see how much they would charge to pick it up a couple of times.
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:04:21 -0600, Richard
wrote: On Monday 06 December 2004 09:16 am, Brad Bourn wrote:
I have a new laptop that the harddrive is dying on.
I have a warranty replacement on the way.
I have our company's source code on the drive.
I just got the thing to boot (probably for the last time)
Is there a simple command I can run to make sure that the data on the drive after I delete the source code dir is completely gone?
Pass a BIG magnet over the platters! If it's as near dead as it appears, running a wipe program is probably out of the question. Since you probably have to return the thing in some reasonable shape, crushing and cutting are not options. ra -- Old age ain't for Sissies!
They actually sell magnets do that.
Now guess at the cost..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I've heard $15,000 US. Pretty much any of the other solutions is more cost effective than that.
What we do is dissemble the drive, remove the platters from the spindle and cut them into several pieces.
I'm sure there are government agencies that could put most of it back together, but we just don't care that much.
Greg
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