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Steve Welburn, 2012-11-12 01:41 PM

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h1. Evidence Promoting Good Data Management
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h2. Anecdotal Tales Of Lost Data
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h3. Recovery of Overwritten Hard Disk Data
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Hi, a friend of mine just overwrote two months of her PhD thesis with
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an older version. I know recovery of overwritten data is possible, but
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wonder if I'd need special hardware to do it. Does anyone know
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something about this ?
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Thank You.
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_5 October 2005 Linux Forums - http://tinyurl.com/8t7uaop_
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h3. Stolen laptop had PhD research
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Thirty-fve minutes spent in Langley’s Willowbrook Shopping Centre cost
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a Surrey woman much more than she had anticipated.
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Langley RCMP say that while she was shopping from 1-1:35 p.m. last
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Monday, someone broke into her vehicle and stole a number of items,
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including a Mac iBook laptop containing the research she had compiled
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as she worked towards her PhD.
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“All that information was on that computer and she has no back-up
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fle,” said Langley RCMP spokesman Cpl. Brenda Marshall.
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_19 March 2008 Surrey Leader - http://tinyurl.com/9hmtlv4_