Ive just formatted my backup drive :(
What are the chances of getting the data back from one of those recovery places? Can they retrieve stuff from a formatted drive?
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tchart: Er no I was using diskpart to clean a USB flash drive.
ubergeeknz:tchart: Er no I was using diskpart to clean a USB flash drive.
Hmm :/ well good luck :P
KevinL:ubergeeknz:tchart: Er no I was using diskpart to clean a USB flash drive.
Hmm :/ well good luck :P
The method of deletion (whether deleted or partition wiped or formatted) doesn't make a massive difference to how easy the data is to recover, for what it's worth.
Edit - unless he used the clean all command with diskpart, in which case "good luck" certainly applies :D
ubergeeknz:
That was implied in his comment, hence my response. If it wasn't actually overwritten, then prognosis is very good, but once you overwrite, particularly on flash, I don't fancy your chances.
Edit: end of the day, if it's just a backup (and not archival) then simply make a new backup... much easier than mucking around with forensic recovery.
Involuntary autocorrect in operation on mobile device. Apologies in advance.
tchart:ubergeeknz:
That was implied in his comment, hence my response. If it wasn't actually overwritten, then prognosis is very good, but once you overwrite, particularly on flash, I don't fancy your chances.
Edit: end of the day, if it's just a backup (and not archival) then simply make a new backup... much easier than mucking around with forensic recovery.
Problem was that I was in the process of moving to a new notebook so I had moved most of my data to my backup drive :(
Anyway, I have asked for a quote to recover the data. I was more curious as to whether it was possible or not to recover data from a formatted drive.
tchart:ubergeeknz:
That was implied in his comment, hence my response. If it wasn't actually overwritten, then prognosis is very good, but once you overwrite, particularly on flash, I don't fancy your chances.
Edit: end of the day, if it's just a backup (and not archival) then simply make a new backup... much easier than mucking around with forensic recovery.
Problem was that I was in the process of moving to a new notebook so I had moved most of my data to my backup drive :(
Anyway, I have asked for a quote to recover the data. I was more curious as to whether it was possible or not to recover data from a formatted drive.
tchart:ubergeeknz:
That was implied in his comment, hence my response. If it wasn't actually overwritten, then prognosis is very good, but once you overwrite, particularly on flash, I don't fancy your chances.
Edit: end of the day, if it's just a backup (and not archival) then simply make a new backup... much easier than mucking around with forensic recovery.
Problem was that I was in the process of moving to a new notebook so I had moved most of my data to my backup drive :(
Anyway, I have asked for a quote to recover the data. I was more curious as to whether it was possible or not to recover data from a formatted drive.
jonb: You may have more luck trying to recover the data from the old laptop drive
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