Re: Bulk erase methods

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:03:47 -0700, larwe wrote:

>> very well. A shredder is a far better method. If the floppys are to
>> be reused, formatting them will deter all but the black-hats.
>
> You'd be surprised how easy it is to recover data from a floppy that
> has only been formatted. All you need is a scope and patience. The
> azimuth variations between any two drives make the "lost" data readable
> easily on another drive.

I've even heard of an "unformat" utility, that just rewrote the old
sectors and brought all of the data back. Of course, this could be
just one of those stories.


Thanks!
Rich


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