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Originally posted by Yorick:
Ok. I won't use the drive. I won't erase the new 40gb backup data, I'll just put it aside for now. Again, will it matter that new info is on it? 40gb out of 160gb? I won't touch it further.
I did check the serial, and it is my drive.
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Well... you have overwriten 40 gigs of data, but you should be able to get the rest.
I'm no expert, but from what I think I usderstood, when you format or delete a file, the computer don't really remove it. He just flag it as useless data that can be overwriten. Probably something like a 1 or 0 data that say if it can be overwriten or not. So when you delete of format, it just add a 1 instead of a 0, and when people restore them, they replace the 1 by a 0 again, and the data is available again.
I might be wrong, but I think it's something like that.
I also heard that when the government want to investigate a hard drive for some reason, even if the drive has been broken, they can use a device to look at the drive physically and recover the data. I think they said that in the same arcticle I read.