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‎02-21-2020 04:12 AM

HP Recommended
Product: Elitebook 8460p
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hello, 

I mistakenly formatted my hdd using secure erase. How do I recover the data on my hdd back and which software can do that please? 

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‎02-21-2020 07:59 AM

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@Deaconet 

 

If you are using the term Secure Erase correctly, then sorry, you can NOT recover the data because what that did was write ones (and maybe zeroes as well) over the data, effectively wiping it from the drive.

 

That is what Secure Erase is designed to to -- erase the data so it can NOT be recovered!



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