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Stroller wrote: |
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> On 31 Jan 2006, at 16:32, Alexander Skwar wrote: |
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>> Stroller wrote: |
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>>> ... a data recovery |
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>>> specialist last year offered to return 17gigs worth of data from a |
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>>> hard drive that had died containing only 8 gigs of files. |
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>> Died hard drives are a *COMPLETELY* different matter. |
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> The additional 9gigs of data were files that had been deleted and not |
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> over-written. |
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Okay. |
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> Not a "completely different matter" at all, |
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Yes, it is. |
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> as |
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> formatting may only delete & replace the partition table. |
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Depends on how you define "format". My definition of |
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format is "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda". So, yes, it |
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is a completely different matter. |
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Alexander Skwar |
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I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a |
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toilet seat. |
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-- Michael McShane |
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