When you reinstall Windows 2008 on a SCSI drive there are many things that happen. However you should probably first understand how files get deleted on your SCSI drive. When you delete a file or even when you format your drive the files get marked as “re-writable.” While they might appear to be deleted and permanently gone forever to you as the user, they are still intact. This is how the majority of storage devices work and it’s what allows REMO to be able to access your files even when they have been deleted or formatted. REMO can perform NTFS file recovery, SCSI data recovery and it can even operate to recover FAT32 partitions. With these options available to you the possibilities are endless. Thankfully, as long as you have no written over your older files everything that was stored on the SCSI drive previously should still be located by REMO.

When you reinstall Windows 2008 over the top of an existing installation, all of the original files get copied to the hard drive and then certain areas within the installation are reset to standard Windows settings that are provided as default settings. These settings essentially turn your installation into the condition it was when your install was fresh. Most of the time when you install Windows the Documents and Settings folder is erased and everything is deleted. However, as long as the deleted files are not overwritten they will be recoverable. Everything else on your SCSI drive should be recoverable as well. Less fragmented files and data on larger disks are more easily restored but that does not eliminate the possibility from other disks.