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    Sandisk Cruzer

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by hah2110, Jul 23, 2009.

  1. hah2110

    hah2110 Notebook Consultant

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    Has anyone ever recovered data off of a formatted sandisk cruzer (formatted because password wouldn't work)? I even sent it to a professional data recovery company and they couldn't find the data. I had 5gb of stuff on there and the format took less than a second telling me it wasnt a full wipe. Any ideas?
     
    hah2110, Jul 23, 2009
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  2. Triangle Laptops

    Triangle Laptops Company Representative

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    Once a drive is formatted, the data is pretty much gone forever. For this reason, I recommend that you make back ups often just in case of situations like this.
     
    Triangle Laptops, Jul 31, 2009
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  3. hah2110

    hah2110 Notebook Consultant

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    That definitely isn't true because I have recovered photos from formatted memory cards and hard drives.
     
    hah2110, Jul 31, 2009
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    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    If a professional company isn't able to recover data what makes you think anyone here will be able to? They have thousands of dollars in equipment and software to retrieve data. That may be the case you recovered data previously but you aren't able to now.
     
    atbnet, Jul 31, 2009
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    gazzacbr Notebook Evangelist

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    sorry for your loss. i had a 8gb sandisk cruzer and spent many hours finding out what u3 technology was: *censored*. tried many ways to get rid of it and use it as a simple flash drive but it was still very unreliable. i also lost data (luckily i had backup copy) and threw the cruzer in the bin after only a few weeks.
    it is possible to recover deleted data from hard disks or flash drives sometimes, but i agree with what atbnet says
     
    gazzacbr, Aug 2, 2009
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