My friend recently gave me his old 250gb hd for me to use. When he gave it to me, I reformatted the drive right away, leaving no trace of any of his info. It’s been a year now, and I am about to do a search through the My documents folder for a file I accidentally deleted last week.
My question is: Will recuva find files from the previously installed OS which contained the files of my friend when I do this search?
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Can recuva recover files from a previous windows installation?
Started by BobSaget, Jun 09 2009 05:15 PM
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Posted 09 June 2009 - 06:01 PM
Not if you do a normal scan. If you do a deep scan than my experience is that even after a low-level format then files from a previous install are found. Well, some of them are. Whether you would find any old files depends on the use of the disk. If he was a light user and you are the Prince of Downloads then it's quite possible that your data has overwritten everything that existed before, and vice-versa.
