Your right about the hard drive plus the bigger the drive the longer it takes. You have to do a
scrub several times to make sure that nothing can be retrieved and it takes special programs. I did it on a computer that didn't have a very big hard drive - like 2 gig (maybe 10 but no bigger) and to scrub it several times took a couple of hours. So there is no way that the information on Bill Churches hard drive couldn't be recovered.