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Did initializing just erase all my files?
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<blockquote data-quote="Badger" data-source="post: 49678"><p>A standard initilization just erases the directories and marks the rest as free space. Then as you use the Mac the old data is overwritten by new. A full initialization will overwrite the old data, perhaps several times. Unless you deliberately used the overwrite option there is a good chance that most of your data is still there. Norton's Utilities Unerase usually does a good job of recovery. Also, DataRescue by Prosoft works well and has a trial version at: <a href="http://www.prosofteng.com/products/downloadCenter.php?PHPSESSID=ebcfce854330f1b5c729b51f8711a438#download1" target="_blank">http://www.prosofteng.com/products/downloadCenter.php?PHPSESSID=ebcfce854330f1b5c729b51f8711a438#download1</a>.</p><p>Badger</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Badger, post: 49678"] A standard initilization just erases the directories and marks the rest as free space. Then as you use the Mac the old data is overwritten by new. A full initialization will overwrite the old data, perhaps several times. Unless you deliberately used the overwrite option there is a good chance that most of your data is still there. Norton's Utilities Unerase usually does a good job of recovery. Also, DataRescue by Prosoft works well and has a trial version at: [url]http://www.prosofteng.com/products/downloadCenter.php?PHPSESSID=ebcfce854330f1b5c729b51f8711a438#download1[/url]. Badger [/QUOTE]
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