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To: coon2000
"If every single sector on the drive gets forcibly written over, then data will be gone from that disk"

That is incorrect, at least for magnetic media. Companies like this recover overwritten data from magnetic disks all day every day.

56 posted on 06/17/2014 7:30:11 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: MV=PY

When every sector has been overwritten, the data is gone for ever. A formatted drive or one where files have been deleted can be recovered but one where every sector has been written to, the previous data is gone forever.

Contact your company you listed and tell them that you accidentally wrote new data to every single sector on your hard drive. Ask them if they can retrieve your old files. They can not.


60 posted on 06/18/2014 5:11:23 AM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death!)
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