Erase does not always mean overwritten · Proposed air date:
Caller Sean worries that he erased an old Time Machine drive and now wants its contents back. Dr. Dave carefully distinguishes a quick format or repartition from overwriting an entire drive, promises to follow up after the show and uses another recovery job to explain why increasingly dense drives had become harder and more expensive to recover.
This excerpt runs from 0:30.914 to 5:02.910 within its preserved source recording.
Proposed recording date: 2013-04-27. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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