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Originally posted by Kard63
Western Digital has "zero out the drive" as an option in the utility disc. Other corps probably have it to. I writes jeberish over the whole drive so the basic data recover retrieval software cant find it. Probably only the Feds could after its all been written over once and then it wouldnt be a pretty picture. Safe AFAIK.
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Zeroing out the harddrive will erase the data for most people, but there are techniques that well funded agencies/people can still use to recover that data.
http://www.usenix.org/publications/l...ann/index.html