[PLUG] Data Recovery Services in Portland

Robert McIntosh mcintoshrt at gmail.com
Tue Jun 6 17:53:15 UTC 2006


One other thing I should mention; I have data recovery software but it
reported cyclic redudancy check errors with the drive.  It's a Seagate drive
and I ran a test and it came back fine, so I'm not sure if it's actually a
hardware problem or a mis-diagnosis.

-Robert


On 6/6/06, m0gely <m0gely at telestream.com> wrote:
>
> 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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