Re: Rebuilt PC, drive letter change results in Recorded TV lost to

Actually, that is what Deleting does, it removes the entry for the file from
the File Allocation Table, but leaves the data completely intact. Formatting
actually restructures the drive and will, in many cases, overwrite *some*
data bits. Undeleting is fairly straight-forward recovery, as long as
nothing has since been written should result in all data recovered.

Recovering data from a format operation is a more difficult and you have a
lower chance of full data recovery.
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James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), FL

"Nickyrock" <nickyrock@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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All formating a drive or partition does is unassociate the contents that
were in use. It looks like it's empty, and as long as data is not written
over where the files are that you wish to recover you can get them back.
I'm just explaining this for those that did not know... a bit of FYI

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Nick
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Actually, even if the drive is formatted there is possible to restore
data. I've got with it myself before, and Undelete data recovery
uitlity helped, restoring lost data back. You can also try it if it
happens your files are erased.
http://www.active-undelete.com/





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