POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Oh what joy! : Re: Oh what joy! Server Time
7 Sep 2024 15:24:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Oh what joy!  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 26 Jun 2008 14:08:04
Message: <4863db04$1@news.povray.org>
>> OOC... how much does it cost to recover data from a drive that has had
>> zeros written to every single byte on the drive? Any estimates?
> 
> LOTS.

I thought so.

Presumably it's something you only bother doing if the data is worth 
more than the cost of recovery...?

> Even recovering from logical failure is Expensive.
> I investigated drive recovery after a damaged partition table and a defrag
> shuffles sectors of one partition over a second parition. Even to recover 2
> directories was far more than I could afford

Ouch.

I always thought this kind of service was only of use to intelligence 
agencies and people with poor backup procedures. ;-)

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