Daily Archives: August 29, 2006

Formatting hard disks for fun and profit

After seeing a story dugg on digg about recovering after you "accidentally wipe your hard drive", it reminded me of a story I often recount but have never blogged. Many years ago I worked as a contract helpdesk operative for Deloitte & Touche in London. They had a number of offices we supported near Blackfriars. I worked there around the time that Windows 3.11 was getting popular. Many of the employees used Microsoft Office under Windows 3.11 on desktop PCs that had a roughly standard build.
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