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Why only 90%? I would naively expect that you'd either be able to get in and recover them all, or not.
by pinko 16y ago
Why only 90%? I would naively expect that you'd either be able to get in and recover them all, or not.
- ErrantX 16y agoWell, if reformatted and updated/reinstalled then it possibly overwrote some of the deleted sectors - rendering some files unrecoverable.
- Agent101 16y agoAs well as the potential overwriting. File carvers have trouble recovering fragmented files. They might produce corrupted files, or nothing depending upon the details of the file format.
- gojomo 16y agoThe update that hung (and was forced-to-completion by allowing a reformat) was a major revision. (It might have been IPhone OS 1->2, even... I don't recall) So not only did the reformat touch sectors all over, but the package of standard stuff grew, and I even think Apple's default partitioning scheme may have been adjusted as part of the update.