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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:50:34
Message-Id: 43DF912A.4000509@mid.message-center.info
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk by Stroller
1 Stroller wrote:
2 > On 31 Jan 2006, at 01:03, Grant wrote:
3 >
4 >> Hello! I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard
5 >> disk.
6 >
7 > Yes, it's fairly trivial, for someone who cares enough to try, to
8 > retrieve data from a disk that's merely been formatted.
9
10 Oh, is it? Please explain how!
11
12 > Although I've
13 > never tried to do so myself I regularly `shred /dev/hda` on
14 > customers' scrap PCs (see `info shred`) and a data recovery
15 > specialist last year offered to return 17gigs worth of data from a
16 > hard drive that had died containing only 8 gigs of files.
17
18 Died hard drives are a *COMPLETELY* different matter.
19
20 Alexander Skwar
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>