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Re: Erasing hard drives - Erase-O-Matic?



 Derek Martin wrote: 

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 05:10:32PM -0400, John Abreau wrote: 
>   
>> In my case, I'm just aiming for due diligence. I've purchased a lot 
>> of Seagate drives over the past few years, and this is the first one 
>> that's died on me; I'm trying to define a policy for dealing with 
>> the situation. 
>>     
> 
> Have you tried contacting Seagate, and telling them that you have 
> concerns about returning the drive to them, because it contains 
> sensitive information?  While I'd tend to doubt it, they may have some 
> sort of accomodation for this... it's not so uncommon a situation 
> these days. 
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