Now wait a minute, all the information might NOT be wiped off of the drive. There are companies that can get info off of supposedly wiped clean drives. (That's how they catch perverts with there nudie pics on drives after they have supposedly reformatted the drive to erase stuff like that.) I don't know any of the names of these companies because I have never had the need to use one. Ask some of the gurus on here and I'm sure they can give you some names. Or, maybe a google search can help. HTH Rick -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David F. Wooledge Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:11 PM To: @freelistts PCTechTalk Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: AAAhhhhh I don't believe it!!! While this won't help you, others should be reminded that any reformat wipes out all the information on the drive. That is one reason why backups of important data and information is necessary. Dave ------------------------------ From: "Michael Scott" <conrod@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- AAAhhhhh I don't believe it!!! Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 16:01:58 +0930 Hello Group., Well here I was feeling good about the reformat. I did the right thing and got an "expert" to do it. Would you believe that he has wiped off 5 years of important data from countless files. Apart from a touch of murder is there any way I can try to get them back? I can't believe he was so stupid. I could have messed it up myself and saved the money. No apologie.. just him sitting there and repeating the word F.... over and over. What a TWIT!!!!! Lyn -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.17 - Release Date: 5/25/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.17 - Release Date: 5/25/2005 -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/