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**soydaykam** · 05-03-2006, 07:36 AM

Everything you do is NOT burned permanently burned onto your hard drive disc. Anything "deleted" is gone forever. When a disc gets "corrupted", data is not deleted and there are ways of trying to recover data.

All I can recommend is to Google for those sites that you had bookmarked.

Oh, sure it is, if you have enough money... For most of us though, once any of the sectors the data is on are overwritten or the directory link overwritten, it's gone. The days of finding your file and putting it together ended at about 200MB drives. It took days to manually browse 200MB drives trying to repiece files from scattered clusters with limited results. I wouldn't dare do it today!

You can spend dozens to hundreds of hours fiddling with it and maybe get stuff, but after a few tries most of us all end up with Hai Hai's opinion, it's gone--move on. Don't spend a lot of time on it, because it may be a lost cause. Try the low hanging fruit (drive unerase utility), but realize it may very well come up with nothing. Consider future protections--backup data and restrict access. After a few such incidents, the hammer starts to sound really good!

05-03-2006, 07:36 AM	#14
soydaykam Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 523 Senior Member	Everything you do is NOT burned permanently burned onto your hard drive disc. Anything "deleted" is gone forever. When a disc gets "corrupted", data is not deleted and there are ways of trying to recover data. All I can recommend is to Google for those sites that you had bookmarked. Oh, sure it is, if you have enough money... For most of us though, once any of the sectors the data is on are overwritten or the directory link overwritten, it's gone. The days of finding your file and putting it together ended at about 200MB drives. It took days to manually browse 200MB drives trying to repiece files from scattered clusters with limited results. I wouldn't dare do it today! You can spend dozens to hundreds of hours fiddling with it and maybe get stuff, but after a few tries most of us all end up with Hai Hai's opinion, it's gone--move on. Don't spend a lot of time on it, because it may be a lost cause. Try the low hanging fruit (drive unerase utility), but realize it may very well come up with nothing. Consider future protections--backup data and restrict access. After a few such incidents, the hammer starts to sound really good!
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