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Large areas of FF pattern

Posted: 17.10.16, 18:50
by gterry
What does it mean when there are large areas of FF in reading the data in hex? Is that something left over from a full format or is there a significance to the FF pattern?

Re: Large areas of FF pattern

Posted: 17.10.16, 20:20
by DataMedics
It could be that the bits are inverted. 00 when inverted appears as FF, so that could be the blank space.

Re: Large areas of FF pattern

Posted: 18.10.16, 09:05
by Roman_TS
FF might means empty place. Ask your customer - how much data on his flash drive that you are going to recover :)

Re: Large areas of FF pattern

Posted: 18.10.16, 14:30
by gterry
Thanks guys, I thought the same just wanted another opinion :D