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Hunter Laptop Computer Repairman Says No Way 450 Gigs of Additional Data Was Included on Hunter’s Laptop
The Gateway Pundit ^ | April 8, 2022 | Joe Hoft

Posted on 04/09/2022 11:14:42 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Earlier this week it was reported that there are an additional 450 gigabytes of material on Hunter Biden’s laptop that have previously gone unreported. However, on Thursday the computer repairman who was given the abandoned laptop says this isn’t so.

There were several news reports this week suggesting there is more on the Hunter laptop than was previously discovered. However, this notion was refuted by the computer repairman who first looked at the laptop and who made a copy of it before handing it over to the FBI.

John Paul Mac Isaac claims that there 300 gigs of data on a 500 gig drive. There was no way that 450 gigs could be on the laptop because there was no more room

Another expert explained it this way:

It is technically impossible to recover 450 GB of erased data from a 500 GB drive with only 200 GB free. When you delete a file from a computer, you are telling the OS to forget the location of that file on the drive, but the file is still there. It is possible to recover a deleted file as long as the OS hasn’t written new data over the file’s previous location. If 450 GB of data was un-deleted from the drive, that would leave 250 GB of data recovered beyond the original 500 GB drive capacity. The newly discovered 450 GB of data combined with the existing original 300 GB data would require the original copy of the drive to be at least 750 GB. The drive only had 500 GB.

Isaac says the data doesn’t line up. Simple math would tell us he is right.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: hunterbiden; hunterlaptop; hunterslaptop; jackmaxey; joebiden; johnpaulmacisaac
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To: howlinhound

Speaking of stolen laptops, what ever happened to John Solomon’s laptop that was stolen out of his car a couple years ago. Never a mention of it again by him or anyone else


21 posted on 04/09/2022 11:42:59 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Macho MAGA Man

The repairman’s argument makes sense.


22 posted on 04/09/2022 11:43:47 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Blue Highway

Good question.


23 posted on 04/09/2022 11:44:44 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Hostage

I believe Maxey’s been crowing about 450 GBs of newly recovered data for the past week.


24 posted on 04/09/2022 11:48:00 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Hostage

More relevant might be who is telling Maxey that? Could well be some intel operatives were able to get themselves recommended to him for the excavation work and they planted a discrediting story.


25 posted on 04/09/2022 11:49:34 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Macho MAGA Man
So who do we believe? The computer repairman or Jack Maxey.

I believe the computer repairman. There may be 450 gigs worth of deleted file names, but as explained in the article if the area on the drive has been overwritten by new data, then the original file is unrecoverable.

There are super-high end methods to theoretically reveal "layers" of hard drive use which is why a "military grade" hard drive deletion overwrites the entire drive several times with random data.

But I highly doubt that this level of forensic hard drive examination has been done, or at this point could be done, on the original drive.

26 posted on 04/09/2022 11:50:42 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Macho MAGA Man
"John Paul Mac Isaac claims that there 300 gigs of data on a 500 gig drive. There was no way that 450 gigs could be on the laptop because there was no more room."

The technical illiteracy is mind blowing.

Windows 10 & 300G of data on a 500G HD qualifies as "full" by my standards. I suppose the critics never heard of a drive partition.

That stated, my own OS is drive C, a 500G PARTITION.

The other drives - e.g., D, E, etc., respectively - are 500G 'partitions' each. My backup folder size from work alone - spanning a mere 3 years, absent the OS - is 208G on one of those drives.

I'm compelled to dismiss this as BS.

27 posted on 04/09/2022 11:52:18 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I purchased a software program a decade ago that helped me scour levels of formatting and get over 3x the ammount of data that would fit on the disk normally. Most of it uncorrupted.


28 posted on 04/09/2022 12:07:51 PM PDT by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

did the Mac guy actually try to see if he could recover “deleted” or overwritten data and was unsuccessful???


29 posted on 04/09/2022 12:11:24 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: howlinhound

I watched an interview with the laptop repairman. He did receive three laptops, and he said that two of them were lost causes, only one of them had to potential for data retrieval, IIRC.

Funny, I don’t recall hearing him mention what happed to the two laptops so far gone they were considered lost causes.


30 posted on 04/09/2022 12:12:33 PM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

There could have ben all manner of data compression going on. It’s possible a 1TB drive could store 1.5TB of info.


31 posted on 04/09/2022 12:13:44 PM PDT by rx (Truth will out!)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

We all pretending crackheads don’t know how to use a zip file?


32 posted on 04/09/2022 12:15:27 PM PDT by jz638
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Wait a minute. I seem to remember when this story first broke that there were more than one laptops/hard drives left for repair. Was that wrong?


33 posted on 04/09/2022 12:18:33 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

“So who do we believe? The computer repairman or Jack Maxey.”

Jack Maxey.

If Jack Maxey feared for his life so much so, that he had to go to Switzerland, how scared/intimidated/compromised do you think the Delaware computer repairman is?


34 posted on 04/09/2022 12:23:18 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Macho MAGA Man
The computer repairman or Jack Maxey.

I'll believe the computer guy over some dude who has allegedly fled to Switzerland in order to "safely" analyze the contents of the laptop files.

My guess is that he's an avid skier and taking advantage of the end of season snow and looking for a free ride back to the states......

35 posted on 04/09/2022 12:24:10 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care)
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To: JonPreston
It probably doesn’t matter much. I bet you can drive a truck thru the chain of custody.

That is a major issue, comparable to O's "birth certificate".

At best, the hard drive would provide for possible new avenues of investigation for a competent, motivated body of investigators.

36 posted on 04/09/2022 12:25:22 PM PDT by frog in a pot (The General Election is NOT THE BEST TIME OR PLACE to cure your state’s political ills.)
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To: frog in a pot

Exactly.


37 posted on 04/09/2022 12:26:20 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Jack Maxey was the Bannon “go to guy” on the laptop/hard drive story from the start.

He dove deep into this at the very beginning and even left the show to pursue it further. He has been doing so ALL THIS TIME.

If you just heard of Jack Maxey and think he is new to this party, you are mistaken!


38 posted on 04/09/2022 12:31:00 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Macho MAGA Man
In the FOX Nation show on this topic, Mac Isaac said Hunter came in with 3 MacBooks. My understanding was that passwords were made available (or discovered) for Hunter's iCloud account, and if Hunter had an iPhone or two, and/or an iPad or 2, there is likely a LOT of sketchy Hunter data floating around in the ether collected from all his devices.

Although the F_I Cyber Guru denies he knows anything, the F_I had the same data that Maxey has, but has their collective fingers in their ears chanting na-na-na-na.....

39 posted on 04/09/2022 12:38:09 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

IT CAN BE DONE.

I have an inexpensive Windows utility called "Uneraser" (www.uneraser.com) that I have used on several occasions to recover erased files that cumulatively were several times larger than the hard drive they came from.

In one instance I was approached by an acquaintance who wanted me to see if I could recover erased image files from the laptop PC previously owned by a family member who recently had died. The laptop only had a 500MB hard drive but I recovered 1.2GB in DCIM files. A small percentage of the recovered images were "messed up" but the majority of them appeared perfect.

And NO, there was no compression used on this hard drive.

And that's just with cheap, available-to-the-general-public software.

I don't claim to know how it works but using this software made me acutely aware that nothing you record on magnetic storage media can ever truly be erased. Even if you do DoD5220.22-M-compliant wiping or degaussing, the boys in Langley can recover data from it.

Why else would business be booming for hard drive shredders?

40 posted on 04/09/2022 12:47:22 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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