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Originally Posted by rowan
25% of a full format will zero out 25% of the drive.
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Yes, but when a hard drive writes a file it does not write it all in one sector. He has lost 25% of his sectors. Granted most of his files (pictures) will have 75% of their data untouched, but you need 100% of the file for it to be recoverable. I would guess that 90-95% of the files had at least SOME PART of their data in one of the sectors that are now gone. Like you said before, he can recover the sectors lost in the full format, but not with a simple windows program...he's gonna have to send it somewhere and pay big $$$.