I was jsut having a discussion with someone at work,
I recon that if a hard drive platter if not either erased or dammaged to some degree that data can be read from it given enough time / money - IE the FBI / CIA or possibly other well funded organisations
Im not arguing that its easy or that an average data recovery company could do it but assuming the actual segment of drive platter containing the file is intact the government could if they wanted to read that data..
he thinks that the drives are so finley tuned that as soon as the drive is a bit smashed up its not possible to ever get the data back (if set about it with a hammer and no one will ever be able to get the data back)
Does anyone know who is right?
I recon that if a hard drive platter if not either erased or dammaged to some degree that data can be read from it given enough time / money - IE the FBI / CIA or possibly other well funded organisations
Im not arguing that its easy or that an average data recovery company could do it but assuming the actual segment of drive platter containing the file is intact the government could if they wanted to read that data..
he thinks that the drives are so finley tuned that as soon as the drive is a bit smashed up its not possible to ever get the data back (if set about it with a hammer and no one will ever be able to get the data back)
Does anyone know who is right?