- Mar 12, 2013
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I accidentally formatted my pendrive and it contained some important files. So I took it to a tech guy and he said he'd recover it for me.
(I did not have enough space on my hard disk left, otherwise, would have recovered it myself using photorec...)
One interesting thing was that, he was able to recover files that I lost a long time ago. I cleary remember that I filled my drive completely twice or thrice after deleting those files. Moreover, I had performed a complete format once! After I insisted to know how its even possible, he gave a theory I was completely unaware of. He said:
"A pendrive's storage capacity is not how much they give you. It has a lot more. Whenever a format or wipe is performed, a layer of memory just comes over the layer of memory which has been formatted. There maybe about 10 layers like that for a normal pendrive. So, by subtracting a layer, you can always get to the previous layer and recover your data."
He has already recovered data worth twice the drive's capacity!!
He did not tell me how he did it. DO you guys have any idea?
(I did not have enough space on my hard disk left, otherwise, would have recovered it myself using photorec...)
One interesting thing was that, he was able to recover files that I lost a long time ago. I cleary remember that I filled my drive completely twice or thrice after deleting those files. Moreover, I had performed a complete format once! After I insisted to know how its even possible, he gave a theory I was completely unaware of. He said:
"A pendrive's storage capacity is not how much they give you. It has a lot more. Whenever a format or wipe is performed, a layer of memory just comes over the layer of memory which has been formatted. There maybe about 10 layers like that for a normal pendrive. So, by subtracting a layer, you can always get to the previous layer and recover your data."
He has already recovered data worth twice the drive's capacity!!
He did not tell me how he did it. DO you guys have any idea?
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