Greg Freemyer schreef:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Dirk Petry
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
The point is also, that the drive 'has the intention' to save the info, even if you decide to delete it. So it will first use all unused space, until it gets to once used space, before it will overwrite the previous info. I know to get rid of very stubborn worms on windows, i had to format the drive 3 - 4 times, on dos level with fdisk, and create new bootrecords several times.. To demonstrate how persistant sw can be... After formatting a few times, there might be shreds of info left somewhere, but i do not know if they could be very usefull. To get rid of using the data, most times totaly overwriting twice just behind eachother was most succesfull in the time there were not such big drives... Shoot the disk is by far the most enjoyable way to make it useless.. ;) -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (Now or never...) Besturingssysteem: Linux 2.6.25-rc5-git2-5-default x86_64 Current user: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 System: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) Alpha3 KDE: 4.00.66 (KDE 4.0.66 >= 20080313) "release 6.1" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org