Re: Starting again...(partitioning...)

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"Phillips" <afn18721@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C3461B5E-0CAE-4DA6-B14E-F8B72DAB37E0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and more: "... erasing past history is simply a matter of writing zeros over the entire disk before installing the operating system from installation media."

Of course, the "past history" remains available for those who get the actual HDD"


You've lost me. Erasing past history is as simple as writing zeroes over everything, except that if someone has the actual HDD (as opposed to what), they will still be able to read it????!!!!

I really do think you are provoking some kind of paranoia in a group where it need not be present. And your arguments just do not make sense.

JW

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