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andrewdodd13
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Then it's lies. As soon as you break open the seal on a Hard Drive the metal plates begin to oxidise, losing any data stored on them.

Burning = combustion = reaction with air = hardcore oxidisation.
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I've reformatted my hard disk at least 30 times (I'm not kidding) and I can still recover some of the information that was originally on it. ^o) Mainly just text files, everything else is majorly corrupt.
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I've reformatted my hard disk at least 30 times (I'm not kidding) and I can still recover some of the information that was originally on it. ^o) Mainly just text files, everything else is majorly corrupt.

because you're doing quick formats, not full formats. they're different.
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Of course, using non-forensic tools, a single full-zero format will make it exceptionally unlikely for someone to recover your private data.

On the other hand, the police would be able to - there's some trick involving inspecting the way magnetic flux was applied to the hard disk [see this] - but, that's police-really-after-you business.

And there's only one thing you would want to hide from the police...

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And there's only one thing you would want to hide from the police...
porn?:P lol joke
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And there's only one thing you would want to hide from the police...
porn?:P lol joke

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because you're doing quick formats, not full formats. they're different.

No actually I did full formats then partitions then full formats again each time. I would've thought partitioning it over and over and over would've rendered it unrecoverable but seems I was wrong.

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to make a drive un recoverable
http://www.killdisk.com/
i doubt there will be any data left on it
i don't know exactly how filesystems work but changing the partitions probabally only effects the partition table

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because you're doing quick formats, not full formats. they're different.

No actually I did full formats then partitions then full formats again each time. I would've thought partitioning it over and over and over would've rendered it unrecoverable but seems I was wrong.
If it were truely full formats, no normal (or even available advanced) recovery program should be able to recover anything.

If you can recover something the formats wouldn't have been "full format".
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If you really want it to be unrecoverable, stick it the microwave.
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