Stroller wrote:
> On 1 Feb 2006, at 18:27, Peter Volkov (pva) wrote:
>
>> On Пнд, 2006-01-30 at 17:03 -0800, Grant wrote:
>>> I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard
>>> disk....Is it true?
>>
>> Short answer for your question is... No. It's not true.
> ...
>> suppose you have deleted file. This operation only
>> removes entry in you directory table, but not the file itself. Or you
>> did format you hard drive. That will rebuild only file structure on
>> you
>> hard drive. Normally that means that you overwrite about 5% of you
>> drive. All other data is intact. Just read it.
>
> I think you just contradicted yourself.
No, I don't think he has.
>> ...If you do `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd then there is no
>> chances you'll get you data. Why? Because all byte and bits on your
>> hard
>> drive became 0.
>
> This is not what normally (or at least, _always_) happens when you
> format a hard-drive.
Well, depends on the definition of "format". If you
define format as "overwrite partition table", than
you're right. But that's hardly what I'd call "format".
Alexander Skwar
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