On 2/1/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
>

An excellent MIT study on hard disk data recovery:

http://www.simson.net/clips/academic/2003.IEEE.DiskDriveForensics.pdf

-Richard


-Richard

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