On 31 Jan 2006, at 16:32, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Stroller wrote:
... 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.

Died hard drives are a *COMPLETELY* different matter.

The additional 9gigs of data were files that had been deleted and not over-written. Not a "completely different matter" at all, as formatting may only delete & replace the partition table.

Stroller.


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