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Originally Posted by StuBradley
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 $$$.
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A file system may not store files in a linear fashion, but the formatting process itself is linear. Formatting 25% will have erased 25% of the sectors from the start. Also, most file systems still prefer writing as close to the start of the drive as possible. What do you think defrag does? Moves everything back that way...