[PLUG] Data Recovery Services in Portland

[m0gely]

Christian Bewley wrote:

> You have to remove the platters 
> from the drive and they have to be read from special readers.

If the drive doesn't power up then maybe.  On a normal functional drive 
that has been formated, even a few times, recovery of the deleted files 
is very easy using software readily available on the net.  Granted, it's 
a tedious task and not for the average joe, but any savvy administrator 
can do this.

Software to properly format the drive doesn't just format it.  It flips 
every bit on the drive several times to ensure the old information is 
not recoverable.  Normal formats do not do this. Even changing the file 
system from say, NTFS to EXT3 leaves things somewhat recoverable.

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