Re: OT: Old Computer Parts
If you do have way too much time on your hands then you can get anything of almost any HD. I remember the story of the data recovery firm that specialised in recovering vital data from utterly wrecked drives. Everything from torched drives to magnetically wiped ones.
The details are hazy but I do the guy saying there was no drive he couldn't recover data from given time and, of course, money.
Having said that a decent format and a re-writing over the entire disk should do it unless you're really paranoid or have the bad luck to sell it to someone with too much time on their hands who is out to get you.
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