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Old 26th August 2008
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Originally Posted by LateNiteTV View Post
i have a harddrive that currently has freebsd 6.3 on it. ive used it for years and was wondering if there was any possible way i can recover files on it, even though it has been reformatted probably more than 20 times and have had probably 10 - 15 different operating systems on it. is this possible? if so, can someone point me in the right direction... thank you.
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Originally Posted by J65nko View Post
If you want to recover only text, you could use dd(1) on the whole disk and strings(1) to see and store and all text to another computer or disk.

Other formats will be very difficult
That won't help if the data has been overwritten 10/20 times, heck, it won't help if its been overwritten a single time.
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