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On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:03:19 -0500, Cottrell, Eric wrote: >> >>(01) Take a big heavy magnet and run it through .. see if it erases the >>entire harddrive .. with password. > >Sure way to destroy any hard drive. Alot of designs have special >servo tracks to do positioning. This would also wipe out low level >formatting. It is a rare case that you can low level format an ide >drive. >This is partly due to the special methods like Zone Bit >Recording used. I doubt that you could recover servo tracks even >if you could low level format the drive. I don't know about that. I've low level formatted IDE, MFM, RLL, and SCSI drives with no problems, and just fdisk it with OS/2 or Linux's fdisk util. But I am sure that a magnet would still do damage. If you want the data really badly, send the drive to ontrack data recovery or a similiar company. Paul