Hello,
I am probably using things backwards here, but am using photorec to check that disk erasing is actually cleaning my disks before giving them away.
No matter which tool I use, after erasing, photorec finds back thousands of files with valid content. I would expect that after a disk erase, no file would be recoverable, or random content.
What am I missing here?
The machine is a regular win7 laptop with vendor default partition layout (1 boot, 1 recovery no letters in windows, 2 NTFS data partition).
Running photorec on the recovery and boot partition yield nothing to recover.
Regards,
File still found after using disk erasing tool
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Re: File still found after using disk erasing tool
I am glad Photorec worked so well for you as it worked as designed!
For support issues with third party software please contact your third party software supplier.
Thank you!
For support issues with third party software please contact your third party software supplier.
Thank you!