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Computer Security - HDD erasure , including spare space ( G-list) ed. |
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ECC data failures , swaps out bad sectors for spares.
but leaves old data on the dead sectors. not good. with 10% spare space , you can not touch. then comes, this company how , obviously have reversed engineered the BIOS of the major drives. they say they can reset the G-list (grown bad list) if that is true , we could DOD erase , run Glist reset then DOD erase 1 more time and the drive is empty. does anyone know if they are real and their product really works? http://www.salvationdata.com seems to cost $450 to find out. thanks for any help jtgh Jerry Hodson |
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On 13 Feb 2006 22:29:52 -0800, "Jerry Hodson" <>
wrote: >ECC data failures , swaps out bad sectors for spares. >but leaves old data on the dead sectors. >not good. with 10% spare space , you can not touch. >then comes, this company how , obviously have reversed engineered the >BIOS of the major >drives. > >they say they can reset the G-list (grown bad list) >if that is true , we could DOD erase , run Glist reset then DOD erase 1 >more time and the >drive is empty. > >does anyone know if they are real and their product really works? > >http://www.salvationdata.com > >seems to cost $450 to find out. > >thanks for any help >jtgh If you really want to destroy a disk do it mechanically, its the only way to be really sure. -- Jim Watt http://www.gibnet.com Jim Watt |
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"Jerry Hodson" <> writes:
[a bunch of incomprehensible sentence fragments] > does anyone know if they are real and their product really works? > http://www.salvationdata.com I'm not familiar with this particular company, but the field of data recovery is quite real and does work. The one I'm familiar with by virtue of a long history of print advertising, and a large writeup in PC Magazine recently is Ontrack: http://www.ontrack.com/ The pretty interesting article PC Mag did on them is here. To test em out, the magazine sent them a drive they'd tossed in a campfire.... http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1911131,00.asp I was surprised at how little it cost to get an evaluation on the recovery, and that they do have do it yourself kits they can send if the drive is electrically and mechanically intact. Yes they do live and die on proprietary software they've developed themselves. Best Regards, -- Todd H. http://www.toddh.net/ Todd H. |
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