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On Jun 8, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

> Mark,
>
>    I'm glad that I'm not the only one struggling with this.  I've  
> had a number of occasions where I've accidentally deleted something  
> (not 'secure' deleted it, mind you), and had little or no success  
> getting it back.  I've since been looking for this easy way that I  
> had assumed everyone but me knew to recover files that weren't  
> deleted securely.
>
> Mark Wright wrote:
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>
>>
>> I have a drive that I would like to recover data from.  Reading  
>> the  discussion about secure deleting of data was making me  
>> think.  This  drive has nothing wrong except the table of contents  
>> can't be read  and I cannot find any program or technique to read  
>> any data off it.   If this is a security problem why isn't it  
>> easier to read a damaged  disk?
>>
>> I purchased a program called Data rescue that has saved  
>> unreadable  zip disks for me but it cannot decode the data on this  
>> disk.  Data  rescue reads blocks of data into memory and compares  
>> it to known  format until it recognizes something.  I have let it  
>> run for weeks  with no success.  I suppose too much formatting  
>> info is missing.  I  know the data is laying out there to be  
>> read.  Anyone know of any  utilities to examine bits on a disk?   
>> This is  a Mac OS9 formatted  disk, if it makes any difference.
>>
>> If it is this hard to pull any data off a corrupt disk I would  
>> say  that writing random data all across a hard drive to secure  
>> delete is  a waste of time.  Nobody would go through what I have  
>> gone through to  read this disk on a used purchase or a salvage  
>> disk  if they did not  know something valuable was there.
>>
>> Mark
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