Maybe they didn't like the guy that did it and wanted him to feel really bad so they didn't try something like typing "data recovery accidental formatted drive" into google

>"Over the next few days, as the department, the division and consultants from Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc. labored to retrieve the data, it became obvious the worst-case scenario was at hand."
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>Yeah, no data recovery specialists in there ;-) With $38 billion at stake, $220,700 expended and 6 weeks of scrambling to reenter the data, you'd think they'd hand the drives and tapes to someone as part of that effort.
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>>I would have thought data recovery specialists could have got this back pretty quickly.
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>>Nick
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>>>The untested backup tape - a classic.
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>>>Gotta wonder why this tech was formatting drives willy nilly in the first place...
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