[GRLUG] Recovering files

[Collin Kidder]

Well, best of luck. Depending on what exactly happened you might get 
something or you might not. Flash uses destructive erase. It actually 
zaps entire blocks at a time to reprogram. So if the blocks were zapped 
then only God himself knows what they used to be. It's not like a hard 
drive where maybe you can get some left over bits. If something is 
written to an area it's first totally erased and then reprogrammed. So, 
I hope for your sake, that you have written nothing to the drive since 
then. You might be saved by the write leveling algorithms though.

Casey DuBois wrote:
> Thank You Paul and Rich,
> I have e-mailed OnTrack (we've used them before also) and will try
> Paul's suggestion also.
> Any additional suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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> Casey
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> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Rich Nagel <networkman at triton.net> wrote:
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>> Casey,
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>> Admittedly, it's been several years since I've needed their services(and
>> hopefully it'll be several more!), but I had great results with OnTrack -
>> http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/data-recovery-services/
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>> Their page does include "mobile devices", so I'd assume that would include
>> phones as well as notebooks.
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>> Worth a call. ;)
>>
>> Rich
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Casey DuBois" <casey at grlug.org>
>> To: <grlug at grlug.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:16 PM
>> Subject: [GRLUG] Recovering files
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>>> Hi GRLUG,
>>>
>>> I got the new iPhone 3G and while transfering my contacts it seems
>>> that my photo's have dissapeared (my bad).
>>>
>>> There are several HDD recovery companies but does anyone know of a
>>> recovery option for flash (iPhone)?
>>>
>>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thank You in advance.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Casey DuBois
>>> 616-808-6942
>>> casey at grlug.org
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