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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1813530" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Randy, I agree. If the drive was just erased, the directory information should still be there, just marked as available instead of in use. However, when I say "wiped" I'm thinking more along the lines of repartitioned and reformatted. That kind of action usually destroys the data in the directory area, even if it's not a secure format with overwrites. In my experience, just a repartition and reformat will pretty much send all the data down the river. I suppose one could get lucky, but as I said, the (fortunately) very few times I've done that, it was all gone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1813530, member: 396914"] Randy, I agree. If the drive was just erased, the directory information should still be there, just marked as available instead of in use. However, when I say "wiped" I'm thinking more along the lines of repartitioned and reformatted. That kind of action usually destroys the data in the directory area, even if it's not a secure format with overwrites. In my experience, just a repartition and reformat will pretty much send all the data down the river. I suppose one could get lucky, but as I said, the (fortunately) very few times I've done that, it was all gone. [/QUOTE]
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