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garth

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But I'm curious if this is possible:

- File A is on an old hard drive and is deleted.
- File B is written over File A on the old hard drive.
- File B is copied onto a brand new hard drive

My question is: is there anyway someone who really knew what they were doing could find remnants of File A on the new hard drive because something was transfered over with File B?
 
Yes it is still possible. Is the hard drive that file A was on still working? There are programs out there that can recover deleted data. I would try Recuva first since it is free. If that doesn't work, give File Scavenger a try but it does cost $50 to recover anything.

I am sure there are others out there but I have had success with both of those mentioned above.
 
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Yes it is still possible. Is the hard drive that file A was on still working? There are programs out there that can recover deleted data. I would try Recuva first since it is free. If that doesn't work, give File Scavenger a try but it does cost $50 to recover anything.

I am sure there are others out there but I have had success with both of those mentioned above.
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No no, sorry--the "old" hard drive is long gone. Is it possible to recover something that was deleted on the old the hard drive by going through what was transfered on the new hard drive?

(that might be a better way of putting in)

I guess in my mind, when you recover something you looking through the "tracks", and maybe some of those "tracks" got transfered over hopefully under other data.
 
I would say that is not possible but don't take my word for it. It couldn't hurt to try a data recovery program.
 
Generally speaking, once files are "Overwritten" they are toast. I Quote : "file B is written over file A". You can still find file A with "Recover It All Professional", but you can't recover it. The name still exists but not the content. So even if you had the old drive you would be out of luck as far as I know.
 
That is not entirely true. I was just in a situation where I accidentally started a format with dban, I stopped it when I realized what had happened. I had two drives connected when I just wanted to do format one drive.

Anyways, I used a program called File Scavenger and it found all the files and then some. Some of the files were dated back 10 years ago. That drive has been formatted and new data written to it several times in that time frame.

JHM, actually you may be right. It had the file name listed but it is possible that it was nothing since I did not recover all the files.
 
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