[mdlug] Recover data from zeroed drive

[Bob]

try this http://www.sleuthkit.org/

Bob Dion

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On 12/12/2013 08:05 AM, Robert Citek wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> A client recently zeroed their drive with this:
>
>     dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
>
> when they meant to do this:
>
>     dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd
>
> That last letter turned out to be a subtle, but important, difference.
>
> Any recommendations of tools for recovering the data from the drive?
>
> The Googles are telling me that recovery is not impossible, just
> extremely unlikely:
>
> http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/13674/is-it-possible-to-recover-data-on-a-zeroed-hard-drive
>
> P.S. they have backups, but it would be nice to recover data since the
> last backup.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
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