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Old 24th Mar 2014, 23:55
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syseng68k
 
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James890:

Data remanence on CVR?

If they were still using magnetic tape, then there may be a chance to recover earlier recordings, much as overwritten hard drive data can sometimes be recovered if you have a right tools.

However, I would expect that modern cvr systems would record to flash or battery backed up memory. ie: digital rather than analog recording. Earlier contents would be overwritten in a continuous loop from the start of memory once end of memory is reached. There would be no way to recover data that has been overwritten...
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