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From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:59:36
Message-Id: 43E1F2BC.8020401@exceedtech.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk by Alexander Skwar
1 Alexander Skwar wrote:
2
3 >Dale wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>Grant wrote:
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>
10 >>>Thanks Peter. That is quite contrary to what most of the other posts
11 >>>in this thread are saying. Those are all just rumors and myths?
12 >>>
13 >>>- Grant
14 >>>
15 >>>
16 >>>
17 >>>
18 >>>
19 >>I think we all know it can be done.
20 >>
21 >>
22 >
23 >No, we don't.
24 >
25 >
26
27
28 Yes, some of us do.
29
30 >
31 >
32 >>Governments do it all the time.
33 >>Data recevery people do it too.
34 >>
35 >>
36 >
37 >Do they? Why don't they advertise this?
38 >
39 >
40
41 They didn't advertize the U2 spy plane either. It existed though. They
42 don't always tell us everything.
43
44 >
45 >
46 >Interesting point, though - if your data is worth just a
47 >few thousand bucks, than it will most of the time not make
48 >sense to waste the money on it.
49 >
50 >
51 >Alexander Skwar
52 >
53 >
54
55
56 Dale
57 :-)
58
59 --
60 To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
61
62 I have four rigs:
63
64 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker
65 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty
66 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey
67 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput
68
69 All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
70
71 --
72 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>