27 Mar
2008
27 Mar
'08
19:15
Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Dirk Petry <dpetry@swissmail.org> wrote:
What happens if one does an incomplete Windows install, i.e. only up to after the disk formatting step? Does that overwrite the data on the disk?
I have recovered large amounts of data from a Windows Server that later had Linux installed on it. Linux was 100% operational, but it seems the sectors it overwrote were not critical to the underlying NTFS filesystem it overwrote. Recovery was rather simple to be honest.
Greg's new method for dual booting :-)
Greg
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