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. 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.
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