FYI Here's the gist of an article I read the other day. Some technician's boss had been given the computer formerly used by one of the sales honchos. For some reason he couldn't access the files he had on it so the tech had to take a look. He used a Knoppix live cd to access the drive, then looked around some more to be certain nothing else was lurking. There was a ton of porn that had obviously belonged to the former user. Note. All the partitions had been formatted when the machine was turned over. It's no guarantee. The closest to a guarantee is something like the 'shred' utility.