Great.  The companies I worked with charged $500 per megabyte.  I am
sure you'll spend that to prove whatever point you are trying to make.

Let me repeat this one more time; I have worked with several of these
companies in the past who have recovered data from flooded and burnt
hard disks.  I also worked with incidental formats and such.  I am not
making this up.

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:55:16AM -0800, new_guy wrote:
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> Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > 
> > bullshit.
> > 
> 
> I decided to put my money where my mouth is :)
> 
> I bought a 80GB, Western Digital IDE hard drive.  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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