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

"Data Recovery from a Formatted Hard Drive
When you run the format command you are simply erasing the Root Directory
Entries and FAT, or MFT. It is possible to run the format command and wipe
the entire hard drive but format must be executed with special options.
There are a number of tricks that data recovery programs use to recover from
format commands. This includes searching for deleted Directory Entries which
are in fact stored as files on the computer. If a directory entry is
located, then we now know the name, starting cluster location, and size of
the files. Of course you can also search the data area of a formatted drive
for file header and footers and locate individual file types by this method"

info obtained from www.recovermyfiles.com

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Nick
"Jaime" <nospamfor-jaimelobo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
<anno_triangle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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