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OK, my sad HP laptop has died [0] (pile of crap failed on my birthday). I suspect some kind of power spike. The hard drive has certain cryptography data on it (GnuPG and SSH keys) that I need to ensure are erased to save myself a whole load of hassle of revoking and replacing keys. There's time because I haven't started down the road of "Customer Service" yet so everything is still in my own possession. Once returned, it'll have the default Vista install replaced if it is going to be sold as reconditioned. (I'm not that interested in a repair but I'll accept it if I can both power up the hard drive and not send off the hard drive for the repair itself.) So, my questions: This is a slimline laptop hard drive, Samsung HM250JI. It has a slimline laptop connector - from left to right, 7 pins and a gap then 15 pins. Does anyone (hopefully near to Plymouth) have a suitable connector that can mount this thing? Ideally I'd like to mount it over USB but I'm not confident that this would be possible. Mounting it over IDE is going to mean connecting it to a relatively old machine which might not have anything except standard IDE support. All my data is kept in RCS of one form or another and email is over IMAP and archived with MHonArc so the rest of the data on the drive is not exactly useful to me anymore. Before I take this pile of crock back for a complete refund (yeah, right), I want to ensure that at least ~/.gnupg/ and ~/.ssh are completely and utterly hosed. (To get a refund, the hard drive does have to be not obviously damaged or destroyed so I can't do what I'd like to do which is take out all my frustration on it with a 4 pound lump hammer.) :-) (Yes, with gazillions of cash someone could conceivably rescue the bytes but a nice reformatting of the ext2 partition a couple of times would be sufficient for my needs, maybe a few runs of 'shred' too.) [0]http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/97-Death-of-the-HP-laptop.html -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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