Hi, Georg Bege wrote: > Hello guys > > I've a simple theoretical question, > let's say I've got an 1TB HDD with an factory default set > of NTFS Partitions. > So a part for recovery and another part for data, the harddisk > wont be occupied a lot just a single windows 7 inst. + few programs > (and their data as well as some user data). > > Now someone accidently executes the recovery program which is found on > many end-customer PCs (to renew the whole installation), so it comes > that all that data is overwritten... maybe also user data... > > How high would be the chance (%) that one is able to recover a single > file from it? > Would such single-overwrite with an recovery installation render this > quite impossible?
Windows only uses a few percent of a 1TB drive, hence most of your data will still present after the setting to factory default, though uneasy to recover. You might prefer /dev/random before giving away your old computer. Jean-Pierre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
