I'm not sure who feeds people these lines of nonsense. Harddrives can be recovered from three formats ago. I've done it, whether it was overwritten, partitioned, formatted or whatever. I have tools that enable me to do it.
The only way to prevent something like that is to do file shredding, minimum 7 passes. Otherwise, chances are decent that the data can be pulled. We even have the ability to pull data off of broken or burned platters in many cases.
|