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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