On 12.08.2010, medya wrote: > in the process of installing windows xp , I accidentally quick-formated the > hard disk and now each partition is indiviudally quickformated to NTFS Your data is gone, forever. The only difference between normal and quick format is that regular formatting also scans for bad blocks/sectors (this is what takes most of the time). All files are gone, and the disk contains now the sectors of a file format which is different from the previous one. _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt