Since it has an option to recover from a previous file system, it just
might. I haven't tried that yet because I'm not experimenting at the
moment. I'm recovering data I want. It digs in pretty deep, though. This
job looks like several days to scan and build a directory tree. If I had a
good drive that I had formatted NTFS over FAT32 and had loaded files, I'm
pretty sure it could recover the files that were stored on the FAT32 file
system prior to formatting even if I had written new files on top of them
afterwards on the NTFS system.

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Colin Barnhorst wrote:

Actually, I am retrieving files from a twice-formatted hard drive right
now. I am using OnTrack's EasyRecovery/DataRecovery in FormatRecovery
mode. It gets almost everything back. Not bad for a $199.00 program.
Including the Protected Storage (all the passwords). So maybe taking a
sledgehammer to the sucka and burying it under a prickly pear cactus
plant is not so outlandish an idea.

does it retrieve data if ZERO's were written to the DRIVE !!