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Jeff L
Jeff L asked in Business & FinanceInsurance · 1 decade ago

Insurance settlement question re: salvage company. I've been asked to ship 2 hard drives and a laptop.?

I can't get any of these 3 items to power up. My fear is that personal info remains on the drives that might be recoverable by someone with expertise in this area. How should I handle this?

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  • Anonymous
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    You have no options. Either protect the information by destroying the hard drives, or claim the insurance and mail them back.

  • StephenWeinstein
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You can erase the data on the hard drives by exposing them to a very powerful magnet or carrying them through an active degaussing loop.

    Any data stored in EPROM or other non-magnetic memory will survive.

  • Bill
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You can pay to have the hard drives erased prior to sending them.

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