2006-12-03 18:01:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
No where, the computer just essentially drops the pointers to that set of data on the drive. This means that you can often recover data that you "deleted" by running special software that scours the drive. This is both a good and bad thing because it means that you can often recover files, but then it also means that people can recover files that you thought were gone (think national security, private company data, etc). If you want to really delete data then you can download software like CCleaner and it will delete your trash but you can program it to overwrite the data with random data to ensure that it is really gone. CCleaner is also a Browser cache cleaner, Windows Registry cleaner, and more. There are other pieces of software that do it better, but if you are just looking to delete your trash securely, clean up your Browser cache and tune up your registry then you can't go wrong with this piece of free software. You can download it from CNET.com.
2006-12-03 18:08:25 · answer #1 · answered by Seth T 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
When a file is deleted from your computer, its contents aren’t immediately destroyed. Windows simply marks the hard drive space as being available for use by changing one character in the file table so that the file entry won’t be displayed in My Computer or a commandline DIR command, etc. If you manage to start an undeletion process before Windows uses that part of the hard drive to write a new file, all you have to do is set that flag back to “on,” and you get the file.
You can use BCWipe to delete any traces of files which you do not want to recover. BCWipe will overwrite the deleted files' clusters with random binary information thus render the information unretrievable.
2006-12-03 18:24:02 · answer #2 · answered by tps_strike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in laymans terms.... it goes to the end of the hard drive under a different file type so the OS can't read it and shows it as deleted and there it is made available for overwriting with new data if need be.
2006-12-03 18:06:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It stays there, the electrical field only get zeroed, that is way a format disk or deleted files are recovered, the original fields are still visible for programs to recall I/O values. Don't know if this makes sense to you.
2006-12-03 18:06:45 · answer #4 · answered by Manie M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When you delete something on your PC you just delete the link to that file but not the file.It stays on your HDD until you write something new on it.
2006-12-03 18:19:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
good answers
2006-12-03 18:26:02 · answer #6 · answered by sennachie1973 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋