[mothered]

thanks very informative answer from you, i will use your suggested tips

You're welcome.

Feel free to ask for assistance with your method or anything relative to the SE.

i will do thanks, is it okay to give you a message or quote you here if i come up stuck ?

It's best to quote me.

[zadam96]

You're welcome.

Feel free to ask for assistance with your method or anything relative to the SE.

i will do thanks, is it okay to give you a message or quote you here if i come up stuck ?

It's best to quote me.

hoping you have some advice mate, they are asking me to get the "data" recovered and send them proof of the data being recovered from a company that dose it,

just wondering if theres a way i can get round this, where i dont have to send the drive to a company to be recovered and then send the drive to seagate

[mothered]

hoping you have some advice mate, they are asking me to get the "data" recovered and send them proof of the data being recovered from a company that dose it,

I've never heard of such nonsense.

Firstly, If "you" perform a low-level secure wipe (thereby wiping all existing sectors), the data will not be recovered, so sending the HDD to a PC tech will prove futile. They'll give you a certificate stating that no data was retrieved.

Tell them you've spent enough money on the HDD and don't have the funds to take It to a given company.

[Bish0pQ]

If the data should really be recovered from a company, you can always fake a ticket from a PC repair shop, and tell them that it's a repair shop, but they do recovery too. Just say that they don't recovered anything.