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

Just trying to help make clear to anyone what formating does, and what
chance there is of recovering data. Between the 2 of us I think we have
achieved this.

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Nick
"Jaime" <nospamfor-jaimelobo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Not sure what your point is?

As I stated - only deleting a file "unassociates" (your word) the data, by
deleting its entry from the FAT. Formatting actually removes entire FAT (a
much more drastic action than simply removing an entry). It also scans
your drive for bad sectors and marks them as unusable, if that happens,
the new FAT structure will be slightly different than the old one. The
chance of full recovery from a formatted drive is not a sure thing; I have
needed to recover data from a formatted drive in past and I have never
recovered all the files.
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James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), FL


"Nickyrock" <nickyrock@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"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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