Rocovery of overwritten documents

External Since: Feb 07, 2005 Posts: 2

I have stupidly overwritten a realy important word document with a
older version and i realy need the new version because the data that i
lossed is needed.. can any1 tell me how???

External Since: Nov 07, 2003 Posts: 2164

Previously team_r0ach.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com wrote:
> I have stupidly overwritten a realy important word document with a
> older version and i realy need the new version because the data that i
> lossed is needed.. can any1 tell me how???

If it was a physical overwrite, forget it. Nobody at present
admits being able to recover that (and that includes the
NSA). There is also indication that it may be impossible
(in the strong, physical sense).

Arno
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