Re: xebec/apple questions

[bje@ripco.com (Bruce Esquibel)]

Michael J. Mahon (mjmahon@aol.com) wrote:

: 1) If the drive was low-level formatted, then your data is toast,
: unless you are into some really "forensic" data recovery.
: From what you've said about the hardware/software setup,
: this may have been beyond their capabilities.

: 2) If the files were deleted, or the drive was high-level formatted,
: then in all likelihood virtually all of your data is still there to be
: block read and pieced back together.  The difficulty of this task
: will depend on how much of the directory information and index
: blocks are still intact.

Don't think I was making the assumption that it was erased, because I don't
beleive it was. As far as I know, on May 10th, 1990 it was disconnected,
tagged, put in a box and sat on a shelf for four and half years, returned to
me where I opened the box, decided it had no future, closed the box and put
it in storage.

Off hand I'd have to say these guys (the secret service) had no clue about
apple's or macintosh. I really beleive they were expecting some unix box and
were disappointed with the results of the sweep.