You understand what you can and research what you wish to learn about. Seems you are not yet very familiar with the physics and technologies of recording. I gave you tip of the iceberg links, but did not offer to be your tutor. Declining to be your tutor in older technology that is already in production, and limiting my involvement in this OT subject hurts MY credibility? My aim and limited interest in this here was simply to identify that there is more in these topics, and that forensics are not a closed topic as some suggested. Forensics deals with older or established technologies, not new and emerging technologies that are my interests. You seem to be blowing smoke that you can or would put in the effort to understand the established stuff. Sorry I didn't identify a suitable tutorial text for you. Take the initiative to dig in on your own from the start you were given, and in the suggested way you were supposed to use info. Chuck > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Robert > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 11:51 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Hidden hard drive partitions > > > First, thanks for the links. > > Second, staying involved in a thread that you claim is not interesting > or productive hurts your credibility. > > Lastly, I visited the links. I found it pretty straight forward. What > I can't figure out though, is how you can use those links to defend your > position. > > The document titled "Using the DTR 3000 Discrete Track Recording Test > System for Data Recovery from Hard Disk Drives" indicates that the > closest it comes to matching your claims is "... in order to recover the > degraded information." Degraded is NOT the same thing as overwritten to > DoD standards, on a modern HDD! Did someone say something about blowing > smoke? > > > > Bob > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >