Richard Urban

A corrupted file is a corrupted file. It may not just have missing
information. The remaining information may be scrambled. If what you preach
is so, Drive Savers, On Track (and others of their kind) would be able to
recover all files, all of the time. They can't - because they are - guess
what -- corrupted!

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)


"cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" <cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote in
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> On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 10:27:32 -0400, "Richard Urban"
>
>>Corrupted files are just that. Data has gone missing from the file. It is
>>unreadable and pretty much useless. There is no way to restore a
>>"corrupted"
>>file, other than via your backup.
>
> Wrong. There's a difference between "lost" as in "mislaid" and "lost"
> as in "overwritten".
>
> The less the at-risk HD is written to, the better are the chances that
> the file contents are not overwritten, but "merely" mislaid.
>
> What happens next, depends on how good and survivable the file system
> and surrounding tools are. With a simple, well-documented file system
> that is rich in tools, the chances are good. Else, less so.
>
> This situation is not uncommon in my line of work, in my particular
> market of stand-alone PCs. It is far more common than concerns over
> unauthorised access to data that NTFS can help with, and in this
> situation, NTFS is if anything a liability.
>
> And no, I don't just "blame the victim" for not making backups.
> That's forcing problems to fit your solution, not addressing the
> problems as they arise in the real world.
>
> Though I must say, the temptation to "blame the victim" when the user
> FORMATS the at-risk HD is pretty high.
>
>
>
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