Quote:
Originally Posted by iamubiquitous Actually, if you drill through the disc media, which is composed of a highly sensitive magnetic alloy machined to the significantly tight specs. necessary to meet the standard, the only way to recover data would be through the prohibitively costly method of carefully filling the holes so the the heads will not catch on the edges(And forget about not corrupting the data in process.). You may think you could read the data on the untouched portion of the disc, but the heads read the entire disc at spin-up to verify the surface and mbr, etc. |
You assume facts not in evidence here. When you're talking about a data recovery outfit, their equipment is manually controlled and doesn't automatically seek the entire disk.
I think you're losing sight of what's "practical" and what's "possible" I agree that after drilling a hole it's probably not practical for anyone with out significant resources to recover any data, but it sure is possible.