Marco Peereboom wrote:
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> bullshit.
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I decided to put my money where my mouth is :)

I bought a 80GB, Western Digital IDE hard drive. $60 USD. Attached it to a
Windows XP laptop (usb-ide bridge), initialized it, created one (1) primary
partition, formatted it NTFS and copied an older subversion repository to
it. I documented and screen-shot the entire process.

I then booted the laptop with an OpenBSD 4.2 install CD and selected the 's'
option and ran dd like this on the hard drive:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0c

I called three (3) well-known data recovery companies. Two of them said
recovery was not possible after the dd procedure, one of them said they'd be
willing to try so long as no other data recovery company had opened the HDD
case and offered to do a free analysis in one of their ISO certified labs.
I'm sending the drive off tomorrow, I'll let you know in a few weeks how it
turns out. 

Brad

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