Technical Question: Recovering a lost file byte-for-byte

[RobBlakemore]

Hi all,

My girlfriend has an XDA-II that - on a whim - decided to hard reset itself. (It has done this once before for me aswell.)

Most of the lost files are of no consequence because a backup is available. However, there is one Word document that we would like to recover that is not backed up. The device has not been used since the hard reset.

I presume that it is likely that the text contents of this Word file are likely to still be in tact somewhere in the RAM (i.e. the bytes are unlikely to have been overwritten just yet). I suppose then that it must be possible - at least theoretically - to obtain a dump of all the contents of the volatile RAM memory (perhaps writing out the contents of RAM to a PC hard drive in one dump).

With this resulting RAM dump I could then search it for words that we know are definitely in the file to obtain most of the text back again.

I was wondering if anyone knows of any program for the XDA-II (or PC) that will copy the ENTIRE contents of all device RAM - byte-for-byte - to the PC.

Failing this, can anyone suggest any way whatsoever to view/copy RAM contents byte-for-byte?

Many Thanks,


Rob

[Rudegar]

you can undelete media like hd's magnetic storage and flash
because they dont fill in 0's in the bits when they delete they just free up the storage and overwrite the data next time data is saved

ram however goes 100% blank when power is not supplied
so ram cant be undeleted and data cant be recovered from it

which is why newer devices with 2005 place data in flash and not in ram
so their device dont goes blank when a hardreset or dead batt happens

[RobBlakemore]

Not the feedback I was hoping to get! But thankyou very much all the same for letting me know.

Cheers.


Rob