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  1. June 30th, 2007, 02:12 AM #25
    Maestr0
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    NTFS stores a backup copy of the boot sector at the end of the partition and a copy of the MFT (Master File Table) somewhere in the middle. If you can recover those you can restore the filesystem. However I suspect Reiser will overwrite some data at the beginning of the partion (128k maybe?) to store its own data and superblock.As Sir Dice mentioned the data is not explicitly overwritten that I am aware of and I concur that Vista is most likely no different,

    I remember using "debug" to jump to the ROM on the MFM controller to do a low-level format. Those were the days......

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