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Snag
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posted 04-20-2001 02:17 PM
    
well my friend, think of it this way:if you get a program, install a program, have a dynamically sized swap file, surf the net etc...anything that writes to the hard drive, you are already screwed. Unless you already have something like Norton Undelete installed. You may be able to retrieve chunks of the file(s) but unless they were located at the end of the drive/partition and you have a relatively fair bit of free space where the sectors have not yet been sequentially overwritten (your hard drive naturally will write from beginning to end of the partition...but not necessarily consecutively...but it likes to fill up sectors near the front first...even though FAT/FAT32 suck at being efficient at it), you are screwed. If you can make out what I said, great. If not: even installing a program to retrieve those files runs the risk of wiping them out...as does pretty much doing anything on your computer that utilizes he swap file (if dynamic), extracts temp files or even Internet Explorer with temporary internet files. There, you told us not to give you that crap, so instead I just came out and told you like it is. Like it or not.
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Wolfie
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posted 04-20-2001 04:17 PM
hmmm...
to explain a bit:
What I understand is that basically what happens when you delete a file is that windows writes a 0 before it so it cannot be seen, and can be overwritten. If you use your computer, files are gonna be created, space is needed, so the 'deleted' files are then overwritten.If you can find some way of getting to these files, changing the name, and claiming them back, do so. -------------------- Draw a crazy picture,
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Cyborg6
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posted 04-21-2001 04:07 PM
I only know how to erase files.Scoob~ Evidence Eliminator 5.0 which has a crack writes over stuff 9 times and even does something to eliminate magnetic recovery. I think it writes under and over files. What I notice which is cool about it is that it speeds up an older puter. Man I love free stuff!  (I will look into the data recovery thing and get back to you if I find anything) [ 04-21-2001: Message edited by: Cyborg6 ]
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AcidWarp
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posted 04-22-2001 02:30 AM
What Scooby said, in fact, what Cy said too.
There are programs available that can recouver lost information. The FBI Computer Crimes division and the NSA and CIA use them all the time. That's why I usually resort to physically damaging the drive so that it's completely inoperable when I think that the fed's is on to me. Usually I use heat to warp the drive plates which at the same time destroys that magnetic sectors. Try recouvering that biatch.'Cept I think I remember listing deleted files with the 'DIR' command in DOS then changing the file name, can't remember how I did it though. -------------------- “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” --Dr. Stephen Hawking.
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Rivendell
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posted 04-23-2001 04:04 AM
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Originally posted by Cyborg6:
I only know how to erase files.Scoob~ Evidence Eliminator 5.0 which has a crack writes over stuff 9 times and even does something to eliminate magnetic recovery. I think it writes under and over files. What I notice which is cool about it is that it speeds up an older puter. Man I love free stuff! (I will look into the data recovery thing and get back to you if I find anything) [ 04-21-2001: Message edited by: Cyborg6 ]
You forgot to mention that it accidentally wiped your harddrive, Cy~ 
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