if you delete a flie from a computer and empties it out of recycle bin where exactly does it go?

Answer 1

Looks like everyone got the right idea about this one. The operating system simply registers the space as empty and the space will be overwritten by other data.

Interestingy, such applications require the hardrive to be zeroised after deletion. Such as computer in military applications or sensitive information such as ex company finance computers. The hardrives must be zeroised to ensure the data does not leak out into the public domain.

Answer 2

Nowhere. It is still on your computer - at least for a little while. When you delete a file, the directory entry that tells Windows where that file is located is deleted, and its location is added to a list of "blank space" on the hard drive. The file is still there, but Windows has no way of finding it. Because the location has been added to the "blank space" list, eventually (and depending on how much free space is on your drive determined how long) another file will be written to that location. Once that happens, the old file is gone permanently. This is why you can sometimes recover an old file using an "undelete" program. It looks through the "blank space" on recreates directory entries for any files that have not yet been overwritten.

Answer 3

It stays on your HDD and renamed based on OS so that the space used by that file can be used again for other files.

You can recover the file through softwares which you have deleted and removed from the Recycle Bin

Answer 4

Virtually the file is deleted. but in the real sence the file stays where it was placed on the harddisk what makes it seem to be deleted is that the pointers to the file are modified in that the file data remains there and there is no pointer to that file so it cannot be located by the operating system. some programmes just scribble binaries on file data corrupting it in that it cannot be accesible to the system. that is why data can be recovered even after formating your hard disk like 4 times. it is very possible.

Answer 5

It stays there but the computer marks the space on the hard drive where it is as 'empty' meaning that it can write other things on top of it.

If the file is deleted and there is no much data written on your disk since, there is good chance that you can recover it! (there are special programs to do that)

Answer 6

You can always install Norton Ghost, and recover deleted files, even file deleted from recycle bin too

Answer 7

In tuneup utilities application there's a gadget called tuneup undelete It recovers data that are deleted by recycle bin. u could additionally use document Scavenger there is no person hundred% opportunities

Answer 8

It stays for a while in ur comp. but when u delete more files they keep replacing the previously deleted files, then only they r permanantly deleted-meaning they r descarded away, disspated as heat and thats why ur processor gets heated because its doing calculations and computations!

Answer 9

all information on your harddisk is stored in digital form, binary or in simple terms 0s and 1s. when we write something on HDD it sets the bits to respective codes in 0s and 1s.. and same way when we delete them the bits are reset to their initial settings. so they don't go anywhere but they are not there anymore.. magic of two numbers merely

Answer 10

simple. it disappears.