Re: Proper disposal of hard drives? -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: Proper disposal of hard drives?
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:25:09 -0500
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Tom Jedrzejewicz wrote:

You may want to try SpinRite (www.grc.com) to see if they can be made useful.

I do own a copy of spinrite ... but I've never had it actually help a
drive in the slightest. Every sector it identifies as bad, it was
unable to recover ... even temporarily.

david

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