10-24-2007, 11:38 PM
My first question would be; how OLD is this "financial data", and if it's as old as the 170, who's gonna care?
Assuming that there really is something of "value" on the drive...
Boot from a system floppy that can boot the drive, then use disk utility (or whatever it was called.. I'm drawing a blank..) to wipe the drive.
If you don't have a system floppy for a PowerBook 170 (and I wouldn't blame you for not...), then just start taking screws out until you can get to the drive...
then hit the drive with a hammer a few times.
The NSA could extract the broken platters, and "find" some data on them, but I'm pretty dang sure no one else is gonna care enough to pay the money for such a service!
Hope this helps.
Assuming that there really is something of "value" on the drive...
Boot from a system floppy that can boot the drive, then use disk utility (or whatever it was called.. I'm drawing a blank..) to wipe the drive.
If you don't have a system floppy for a PowerBook 170 (and I wouldn't blame you for not...), then just start taking screws out until you can get to the drive...
then hit the drive with a hammer a few times.
The NSA could extract the broken platters, and "find" some data on them, but I'm pretty dang sure no one else is gonna care enough to pay the money for such a service!
Hope this helps.