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Stroller wrote: |
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> On 31 Jan 2006, at 01:03, Grant wrote: |
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>> Hello! I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard |
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>> disk. |
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> Yes, it's fairly trivial, for someone who cares enough to try, to |
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> retrieve data from a disk that's merely been formatted. |
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Oh, is it? Please explain how! |
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> Although I've |
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> never tried to do so myself I regularly `shred /dev/hda` on |
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> customers' scrap PCs (see `info shred`) and 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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Alexander Skwar |
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