On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:37:39AM +0530, Rohit typed:
> 'Publicity stunt' is the only word suitable for such advertising. A
> formatted partition [thorough format with clearing unused space] sets
> all bits to 0, making it impossible to recover data from the same
> device.
I don't think that statement is correct. When you reformat a hard disk,
the data is *not* overwritten - it's just the filesystem control tables
(like the FAT and root directory) that are cleared.
So it *is* possible (theoretically at least) to recover almost the entire
data on the hard disk if you haven't written new files to the partition
(overwriting the old data).
Kala
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