On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:48:28PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > 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. > That is untrue. A Windows Format/Quick Format does not blank the disk, it rather only writes new filesystem metadata. For NTFS that is at least some information at the start of the partition, and some info spread over the partition. For FAT, that is only information at the start of the disk (but rather largem, as the File Allocation Table resides there). ext2/ext3 for example have backup superblock copies distributed over the disk and recovery of all files/directories except those located at the start are quite possible with e2fsck after FAT formatting. Some recoverz should be possible after NTFS formatting. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
