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Greg's earlier post contradicts this advice:

> Most people seem to think they can take a $30 tape demagnatizer
> and demagnetize a disk.  Magnets built for the job cost around $5K.

Depending on how badly the drive is crashed, you might want to try DBAN
(Darik's Boot and Nuke).  You can boot it from a floppy, CD-ROM, etc.,
and it claims to be able to securely wipe any disk that it can detect:

<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://dban.sourceforge.net/";>http://dban.sourceforge.net/</a>

Alan


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