Did you manage to retrieve the data from any of those HDs harrison?

Am I right in thinking that if you just do a quick format of a drive then it doesn't actually remove any data, and just writes over it when you save new data onto it? It's just that someone mentioned something like that on another forum, when someone who repairs other peoples computers was trying to install Vista on one and it had several of his customer's HDs in and the Vista installer apparently formatted all the disks before he had time to stop it (without asking). It was only a quick format though.

I think that must be the third or forth time you have told us the story about the A1200 HD, but it is certainly good if you end up getting an extra one for free .