Peter Volkov (pva) wrote:
> On Пнд, 2006-01-30 at 17:03 -0800, Grant wrote:
>> I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard
>> disk. Lucky for me I don't have any interest in actually doing this,
>> but I got in an argue\ment with a buddy last night about whether or
>> not it was possible. I'm sure I've read that the government and other
>> well-funded institutions have this capability. Is it true?
>
> What a long thread, full of myths. But there are no miracles :)
>
> Short answer for your question is... No. It's not true.
Of course not.
> Having some experience in field of data recovery I'm not going to dive
> into my real stories. I'll better give some general hints.
Ah, thanks a lot for doing away with all those myths. Everything
you write sounds pretty much like what I've heard and also
makes a lot of sense. Most certainly more than those recovery
rumors :)
> You may find some interesting information about data recovery in google.
> But as I told you. No miracles. Sorry. =)
>
> HTH,
Yes, very much!
Alexander Skwar
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