Iain Buchanan wrote: > They both rely on the fact that you can read what _was_ once written to > the hard drive by examining the spaces. So that's one method.
Yes, in theory that might be possible - but how comes, that not even the data recovery companies advertise this? And also, do you have solid facts about data being recovered that way? > The other method of recovering data is just to cat /dev/hda, but that > relies on the hd not being "wiped" (overwritten with 0's and 1's many > times in a semi-random fashion!). Or even just once with 0. Alexander Skwar -- I hate you Kenny. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list