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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:06:56
Message-Id: 8D882647-9C96-48D9-9D98-FEB3A42C623E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk by Alexander Skwar
1 On 31 Jan 2006, at 16:32, Alexander Skwar wrote:
2 > Stroller wrote:
3 >> ... a data recovery
4 >> specialist last year offered to return 17gigs worth of data from a
5 >> hard drive that had died containing only 8 gigs of files.
6 >
7 > Died hard drives are a *COMPLETELY* different matter.
8
9 The additional 9gigs of data were files that had been deleted and not
10 over-written. Not a "completely different matter" at all, as
11 formatting may only delete & replace the partition table.
12
13 Stroller.
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>