Data Concerns

[cyberprof]

I bought a laptop two weeks ago and it developed a fault with the cd-rom. Before taking it back to the shop for a replacement I removed my work, deleted the partitions I created, reformatted the drive and then run the laptop system restore cd.

I'm now a little worried. If someone wanted to, is my work recoverable. I am a software developer and use my laptop to write programs and websites.

Should I be worried?

Cheers

J

 

[wolluf]

Possible - but unlikely (and why would anyone in the shop be trying to) - you'd need to do a binary zero fill of the disk to properly wipe everything. In fact, if the restore CD works by writing a stored image to the disk, that would do it too. Even if it just overwrites, odds on it would at worst leave fragments of your original files on the disk.

 

[JRBeltman]

Actually you can restore harddisk data after formatting and overwriting it for 7 times!!! Very handy to know if you had a bit of a disaster

But as wolluf statet you should be ok! I dont think people in the shop have either the equipment to restore your files nor the interest



JR
(In need of a cool signature)

 

[cyberprof]

Cheers, thanks for the re-assurance

Thanks

J