[PLUG] Lost Partition

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Aug 8 01:21:01 UTC 2002


On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Richard Langis Jr. wrote:

> I'm also thinking about those specialized data recovery places that 
> charge exorbitant rates to recover data from physically damaged or 
> otherwise screwed up platters.  It's one thing if your 'format' command 
> actually writes null data to the disk, quite another if it simply erases 
> the pointers to files and simply claims the disk is 'empty'.

  Interesting point, Richard. I wonder if any of 'em can handle anything but
a Microsoft partition. They all use Microsoft tools, after all.

Rich





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