Apart from providing a great laugh from participants in this discussion, it

reminds me how a government IT man replaced our then prime minister's pc.

(mid nineties)

He then formatted the hard drive, and it went to the usual government "for

sale/tender" store.

Oh dear

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Jack Skelley

<JSkelley@newjerseydevils.com>wrote:

> Kent:

> Back in the day when VHS/Beta was the video of choice they made a video

> grade bulk eraser. Not the type that you may have used for a cassette tape

> but the heavy duty video eraser.

> If you can remove the cover to the drive and expose the platters to the

> bulk eraser you will find it will erase everything.

> You may not need to remove the cover for this to work with a strong enough

> magnetic field.

> If the drive is SATA us can then hook it up to a USB to SATA adapter and

> check it.

> But a very strong magnetic field should do the trick.

> Regards,

>

> Jack Skelley

>

>

> ________________________________________

> From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com [profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On

> Behalf Of Kent Belan [kbelan@mchsi.com]

> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 1:22 PM

> To: profoxtech@leafe.com

> Subject: [NF] Format laptop harddrive

>

> Hello,

>

> The hard drive in my laptop was failing so HP sent me another hard drive

> under warranty.

>

> They want me to send back the hard drive that was failing.

>

> What is the best way for format or erase the drive before I send it back ?

>

> Thanks,

> Kent

>

>

>

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