JP> ...Yes, it can be done, flushing a HD really would defeat the
 JP> exercise; are you ready to fork out upwards of $350.00 US to
 JP> regain some of your data ?  Not I !

 AA> According to:

 AA> http://www.hdd-tools.com/products/rrs/licenses/

 AA> ...it's only $50 per recovery. That's not bad for a large hdd. 

actually, considering that the app doesn't do any real work, yes it is...
we're only yanking a password, folks... why should the size of the drive
matter in the cost? it doesn't take longer to blank the password of a
larger drive than a smaller one... it is just plain greed :?

kinda reminds me of a tool to unlock password protected office documents...
it had several loops and such simply to eat time and make it seem like it
was doing a lot... it was all BS candy and fakery... the actual unlocking
was over and done with in less than a second but it would sit and spin for
up to a minute or so just to make you thing it was a tough job to do...

)\/(ark