Re: Retrieving overwritten text

["Mervyn E. Bennun" <mebennun>]

Enrique,

Something struck me as I went on my way....

Some months ago on the List, someone raised exactly the opposite problem to
yours and perhaps the same software might be helpful You'd have to look in
the archive.

He was disposing of a PC, as I recall, and wanted to ensure that the highly
confidential material on it would be totally destroyed and so irrecoverable
by the new user. The problem was similar to yours, in that merely deleting
files does not remove them.

Perhaps a lead from this...?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Enrique Lynch" <lynch@domain.hidden>
To: "Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE" <notabene@domain.hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Retrieving overwritten text


Thanks to David, Jon, Bob, Herb and Mervyn for
their suggestions.

I've tried some of the demos (On Track, Data Pol),
haven't tested Norton yet, and found something
deep inside the HD which fairly resembles in size
the lost document; but demos allow you only to
peep inside the HD but do not recover anything.
You have to pay for that and, Oh Gods, it's terribly
expensive! Wish I could have a friend in Secret
Services, yes, Mervyn.

In any case, backup is a smart advice but backup
intelligently is even more clever than that. One
thing a NB user **must not** do is work on an
"untitled" document. Always give the document
you are working on a specific, unique, filename.

Thanks again.

Best,

Enrique

 El 8 Jul 2003 a las 17:47, Robert H. Kubie escribió

> You probably have already considered this, but in case not: it may be
> that one or another of Norton's various utilities could help.
>
> Good luck.
>
> --Bob Kubie
>
>
>
> At 05:17 PM 7/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >I've done a bit of searching and found a couple of products that
> >might be the sort of thing you're looking for -- but I've not had any
> >hands-on experience (perhaps other list members will be able to
> >recommend tools they've actually used themselves); anyway, for what
> >it's worth, for CIA UnErase Private, see
> ><http://www.datapol-technologies.com/en/index.htm> and for
> >EasyRecovery Professional see
> ><http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/>
> >
> >lynch@domain.hidden wrote:
> >
> >>. . . Does anyone of you know about any utility which I could use to
> >> retrieve the lost text?
> >
> >
> >
>
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