Stroller wrote:
> On 31 Jan 2006, at 01:03, Grant wrote:
>
>> Hello! I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard
>> disk.
>
> Yes, it's fairly trivial, for someone who cares enough to try, to
> retrieve data from a disk that's merely been formatted.
Oh, is it? Please explain how!
> Although I've
> never tried to do so myself I regularly `shred /dev/hda` on
> customers' scrap PCs (see `info shred`) and a data recovery
> specialist last year offered to return 17gigs worth of data from a
> hard drive that had died containing only 8 gigs of files.
Died hard drives are a *COMPLETELY* different matter.
Alexander Skwar
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