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Re: Erasing hard drives - Erase-O-Matic?



 On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 05:10:32PM -0400, John Abreau wrote: 
> In my case, I'm just aiming for due diligence. I've purchased a lot 
> of Seagate drives over the past few years, and this is the first one 
> that's died on me; I'm trying to define a policy for dealing with 
> the situation. 

Have you tried contacting Seagate, and telling them that you have 
concerns about returning the drive to them, because it contains 
sensitive information?  While I'd tend to doubt it, they may have some 
sort of accomodation for this... it's not so uncommon a situation 
these days. 

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Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizzashack.org/   GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 
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