Shoutbox

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...