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sechs · December 2nd, 2004, 01:51 AM

Just because you got the files back doesn't mean that you got their contents. Even if you make no changes to the drive, it's possible that there's bad data or that the recovery tool was confused by mangled structures.

December 2nd, 2004, 01:51 AM	#11 (permalink)
sechs Ultimate Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,338	Just because you got the files back doesn't mean that you got their contents. Even if you make no changes to the drive, it's possible that there's bad data or that the recovery tool was confused by mangled structures.