2006-11-28 00:02:42 · 14 answers · asked by crazYbird 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
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2006-11-28 00:05:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you delete a file from the recycle bin, the directory entry that points to the file is removed, and the hard drive sector(s) that held the file are returned to a list of empty spaces. The file is still on your computer, but Windows no longer has a way of finding its location. About the only way to get such a file back is to use special software to "undelete" it.
File undeleting software works by looking through the "empty space" on your hard drive and recreating directory listing for those orphaned files. The sooner after a delete you run such software, the better your chances of recovering the file(s).
Because the space the file occupied has been added to the "free space" list, at some point in the future the sector(s) will be reused by another file. Once that is done, the original file is gone for good. How soon the space will be reused is determined by the amount of free space on your hard drive, how large the space is, and where it is physically located. (Windows uses the first space large enough on the drive).
2006-11-28 08:12:31 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The files that you have deleted from your recycle bin are immediately processed, compressed and then wisped-off to a large "storage like container" located deep in the Northern most corner of Bill Gates basement. Once there, your former files are cataloged, numbered, and given a smooth delicious milk-chocolaty coating. The next step is a highly guarded proprietary process that, unfortunately, cannot be described here in any detail. Finally, your files will be bathed, massaged and put out to pasture in a beautiful green, grass covered field that has been designed just for this very task in mind...Sure hope this helps answer your question, and perhaps even puts your mind a little at ease. =PandaPaw=
2006-11-28 09:19:03 · answer #3 · answered by PandaPaw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of every program, game, document, etc., as being inside it's own file folder. Each one of those folders has an address. That's how your computer finds information - it looks for the address the information is stored under.
When you put something in the recycle bin or delete it, the computer simply "drops" that address from it's memory. The information is still there, but the computer doesn't know how to find it.
After awhile the information is wrote over by other programs, games, documents, etc., and then it becomes too fragmented to recover.
Programs that totally delete information not only "drop" the address, they "erase" the information under the address or inside the file folder as well.
2006-11-28 08:20:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The files actually remain on your hard drive. On your hard drive, there is whats called the File Allocation Table. This table is a map of where all of the files are located.
When a file is moved to the recycle bin, it is only moved to a holding area until you are certain you want it deleted.
When a file is deleted, its entry is deleted in the file allocation table and the location of the file is marked as free space. The file itself still exists on the hard drive until it is overwritten by another file.
It is possible for a file, or fragments of it, to remain on the hard drive for quite a while after it is deleted. Anyone skilled with using a disk editor could possibly recover the file or portions of one.
2006-11-28 08:19:10 · answer #5 · answered by Mad Jack 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they stay on your hard drive but u don't see them... the files are deleted only when u copy new files on your hdd (the new files over write the deleted ones)... so if u delete a file, even if u deleted from your recycle u can find it with some programs like "lost an found".
2006-11-28 08:08:46 · answer #6 · answered by alin s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The files don't "go" anywhere. They are marked as hidden and partially renamed. The files remain in place (although invisible to you) until the space they are taking up is required, and then they are overwritten.
The system changes the first few letters of the filename which is why, if you use an Undelete program it will often return slightly altered filenames.
2006-11-28 08:11:24 · answer #7 · answered by Arius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi
Well if you took it out from the recycle bin , then its wipe off from xp BUT NOT FROM YOUR HD , there are recovery software program for that , just download one , and extract all the data you clean from your recycle bin
2006-11-28 08:07:45 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When a file is deleted. only the first character is deleted for example a file named game.exe becomes ame.exe and is no longer available because (game.exe has been renamed) so all of your files unless shredded or written over because of use or software is still right there on your drive
2006-11-28 08:13:37 · answer #9 · answered by L H 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
actually the files arent deleted but they are removed from the table.when the comp searches for that file it cant find coz its not on menu.lol
therefore some softwares can retrive the files
2006-11-28 08:07:25 · answer #10 · answered by halo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do not go anywhere. Even if you format your hard drive they are still there. What happens is that your hard drive gets a magnetic imprint on it when it is overwritten the magnetic imprint that was there before stays.
The best way to REALLY clear you hard drive is to us a hammer on it.
2006-11-28 08:13:59 · answer #11 · answered by Today is the Day 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋