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
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