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Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Dabir posted:

My question is, will recovery software be able to get something back, or does the tool actually zero out the entire drive?

No, the tools wouldn't erase the whole drive as that could take a long time.

It'd depend on the size of the USB hard drive. If she used a big one then there's a decent chance a lot of the files could be recovered. The smaller it is the more likely important stuff got permanently erased.

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