[PLUG] Lost Partition

[Tyler F. Creelan]

Even if it writes null data to the disk, the original data can be
recovered if only one pass is made. (With fairly expensive equipment.) Cf.
earlier post.

Tyler



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'.
>
> -R
>
> Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
>
> > Formatting a partition in Linux usually entails creating a new file
> > system on the specified partition. That operation overwrites all of the
> > existing information that previously existed in that partition as far
> > as I know. I'm not sure what information would be left to allow
> > recovery of the data after such an operation occurred on a partition.
> > I'm very happy if I am indeed wrong here.
>
>
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