[BC] GATEWAY 4DX2-50V C

[WFIFeng@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/14/2005 5:30:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
seaberg1 at juno.com writes:

> It's against my "computer religion" to smash the hard-drive. I think
>  reformating the drive will wipe out the stored date.  Any suggestions
>  from the IT brain trust?

You could put the drive into a running WIN9X box, and *fill* it with MP3 
files until it begs for mercy. Then, delete them, and reformat. That should wipe 
out all of the original data sufficiently. As long as you overwrite the old 
data, (not just FORMAT) it becomes impossible even for hackers to get at it. Only 
a professional data recovery service would be able to retrieve it. If someone 
has thousands of dollars to spend on data recovery, they can try. I seriously 
doubt it, though. 

Willie...