Stroller wrote:
> On 31 Jan 2006, at 16:32, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> Stroller wrote:
>>> ... 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.
>
> The additional 9gigs of data were files that had been deleted and not
> over-written.
Okay.
> Not a "completely different matter" at all,
Yes, it is.
> as
> formatting may only delete & replace the partition table.
Depends on how you define "format". My definition of
format is "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda". So, yes, it
is a completely different matter.
Alexander Skwar
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