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Originally posted by Luvian:
Even if your hard drive got formated, you might still be able to get your information back.
I even once read an arcticle about a bunch of university guys that went to the garbage dump and took hard drives there to recover the data for the arcticle on security they were working on. One of them had been from an ATM machine and when they restored it they could have had access to the years of data on it if they wanted.
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Awhile back there was a topic about this. Anyhow, I believe I was called 'paranoid' when I said 3 minimum and 7 optimum swipes before putting one up for sale, or tossing it.
Unfortunately LaCie is well known for being user/customer unfriendly in their relations department. Why they would do a re-format on a customer's drive just to make a fire wire connection repair is beyond me. I don't think it is their duty to eliminate data, but to get the product back up and running.
Yorick, did you check the serial number to ensure that is your drive. Could be possibly it got switched?
BTW, could you update us on your hamstring?