The Inq: Unused space on hard drives recovered?
Here's some very interesting news from The Inq.
Don't know how credible it is though?
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14597
Don't know how credible it is though?
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14597
READER WILEY SILER has sent us a method which he said was discovered by Scott Komblue and documented by himself which they claim can recover unused areas of the hard drive in the form of hidden partitions.
Interesting results to date:
Western Digital 200GB SATA
Yield after recovery: 510GB of space
IBM Deskstar 80GB EIDE
Yield after recovery: 150GB of space
Maxtor 40GB EIDE
Yield after recovery: 80GB
Seagate 20GB EIDE
Yield after recovery: 30GB
Unknown laptop 80GB HDD
Yield: 120GB
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If it works, that is.
Back it up, and then try the trick.
Examples of some results:
Western Digital 200GB SATA
Yield after recovery: 510GB of space
IBM Deskstar 80GB EIDE
Yield after recovery: 150GB of space
Maxtor 40GB EIDE
Yield after recovery: 80GB
Seagate 20GB EIDE
Yield after recovery: 30GB
Unknown laptop 80GB HDD
Yield: 120GB
The thread is here.
The article is here except the url isn't working for me.
Dexter...
Compaq for example used to always have small hidden partitions containing their own utilitys and dignostic routines and crap as a hidden first partition years ago.
Cheers
Tex
Here was a post from a claimed ghost developer...
"I'm a Ghost developer.
This is just a method of corrupting your partition table so the same disk sectors appear more than once. If you try this, don't ask Symantec for help afterwards."
Gee sounds very similiar to my explanation above but I'm no ghost developer... just a nice general understanding on how a hard disk works is needed here although being a ghost developer has more credibility.
Tex
P.S. Whats more this thread doesn't have "Tex" written all over it.... That was "Rex - The Wonder Dog" or a better cartoon characxter for this thread would actually be "Felix the cat with his amazing bag of tricks". You know ... he puts a 200gb Sata drive into the bag and pulls out a 500gb drive. Thats called magic folks. Not tech data. Now how many of you really believe in magic?
Tex
I just took delivery of my Infineum Labs "Phantom" console as well ...
(Albert Einstein)
1) Find two working IBM Deskstar drives.
2) ...prof's :bs: detector flashes wildly...
Oops... Forgot - there ain't two working Deskstars in the whole wide world...
Sorry!