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Question on rewritting over hard drive to remove all important documents. I understand that all information is stored on the HD as “1” and “0”. I also understand that once data has been written to the drive that reformatting the drive does not whip the drive clean that someone can retrieve information from the drive.
Here’s My Question,
I was told by our IT staff that if I were to rewrite over the entire 80 gig drive with data of NO value, that any other data that was previous written to the drive will have been overwritten with new “1” and “0”. This meaning if the drive were to be returned for replacement under warranty that those with peeping eyes would see data of no value, Remember I am talking about rewritting over the entire drive not reformatting the drive.
Is this true?
Here’s My Question,
I was told by our IT staff that if I were to rewrite over the entire 80 gig drive with data of NO value, that any other data that was previous written to the drive will have been overwritten with new “1” and “0”. This meaning if the drive were to be returned for replacement under warranty that those with peeping eyes would see data of no value, Remember I am talking about rewritting over the entire drive not reformatting the drive.
Is this true?