Find out if thers any porn first...blackmail dude. Nah just kiddin i dont wanna get banned or anything from here. Have u talked to the guy yet since postin? AcidDriveHB....even alot of the HDD drives for sell on eBay arent formatted...or just partitioned wrong to make it look like its formatted. I read on some news sites a couple months ago where supposedly u could recover formatted data somehow. Crackers would buy old HDD's from flea markets or eBay or garage sells and then just salvage the old data and there they'd have some credit card numbers or personal data. It was supposed to be the new way of Identity theft but i havent heard anything more of it.