Reorg and > 4GB HD partition

[amigagr]

@Hyperspeed: hysteresis is a greek word and in general means ''delay'' if this can help you someway. in extream situations can mean ''loss'' too.

[Hyperspeed]

Thanks amije that's interesting. Magnetic Hysteresis must then mean a delay or loss in magnetism.

From what I've read it's a way of recovering data off a hard disk's surface even after it has been full-formatted multiple times.

Apparently spy agencies use this method but it may be increasingly difficult now with higher densities of data on the drive.

How the process works is a complete mystery to me though...

[zipper]

Quite simple - the magnetical particles want to keep their orientation (hysteresis describes that willingness). If you turn the magnetic orientation, slight remnants stay from the preceeding state and it can be read with precision devices. So you have to turn your 0s to 1s 5-10-20 times randomly until you can be quite sure nobody can reproduce the original state - speaking of hard disk surfaces, simply taken.

[Piru]

Do you know anything on magnetic hysteresis, I'm curious as to how this works.

I don't, but my friend wikipedia does.

Also, see Data recovery wiki.

A common misconception is that overwritten data ... can be recovered by different means, especially by intelligence agencies.

[Hyperspeed]

A common misconception is that overwritten data ... can be recovered by different means, especially by intelligence agencies.

A common misconception is that Wikipedia is always right and that intelligience agenices never hide what they know - nor do they put false information into the public domain to reinforce the police state which they strive to attain.

:-D