i am referring to computer files
2006-12-05 06:20:53 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Computer files are series of blips of electricity when being processed and strips of magnetized and unmagnetized disc when stored on a hard drive. So when you a delete a file being processed the electricity is simply reused. When you delete it off of the hard drive it unmagnetizes the strip.
Computer files are not matter but energy, whether magnetic or electrical.
2006-12-05 06:39:45 · answer #1 · answered by abcd 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When you just do a delete on a file, it isn't actually removed from the drive at all. The computer just changes the first letter of that file to a Hex 15 I think it is, which tells it that space is now available to over write with any new data. They even have programs now that will recover data if you format the drive. So the file really takes no other shape than it was before you delete it.
Ron
2006-12-05 14:25:39 · answer #2 · answered by Ron75 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Computer files are series of blips of electricity when being processed and strips of magnetized and unmagnetized disc when stored on a hard drive. So when you a delete a file being processed the electricity is simply reused. When you delete it off of the hard drive it unmagnetizes the strip.
Computer files are not matter but energy, whether magnetic or electrical.
2006-12-05 14:24:05 · answer #3 · answered by Phoenix 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋