If u have deleted someting and sent to the Recycle Bin and then deleted it of the Recycle Bin,is it deleted?

Question

Is it deleted permanently of your hard drive forever? It's illegally downloaded music.

Answer 1

Buh Bye!!! BUH BUH BYYYEEE!!! its gone! you might have to clean some registry files though from the system's folder to really eliminate any folders the download left behind....even if they're empty.

Answer 2

Look. If you double delete something, like you stated, then the data is said to be deleted.Said, because what really happens, is, like this. The area that was occupied by that "DATA" Is now marked "AVAILABLE" This means that If you later save anything else, then this space could be used for laying that data down. If the new data = less than the room Occupied by the previous info"DATA", then, the remnants of the previous info will still be available, in part. Probably Identifiable.
If yo are this worried then you need to Reformat your Drive. This would have to be a LOW LEVEL format. This procedure completely reconstructs the HDD Platters. ;You will need a power full utility, I use "MICROSCOPE". There is also a SECURITY WIPE utility that works real well. Not even the big C and I with the A can read this Drive after the Microscope wipes it. Search "Micro-scope" (micro2000). Besides the HDD evidence is not all they use. Your IP Address will always point to were things went 2 and came from. Hope this helps Will.

Answer 3

When you delete a file from the Recycle bin, it is not removed from your computer. It just deletes it from the directory, so there is nothing pointing to it any more, making it so you do not see it anymore. The space used by the file is then added to a list the computer keeps of "empty" spaces. At some point, your computer will reuse that space, writing a new file over it. Once that happens, it can not longer be retrieved. How soon that happens depends on how much empty space is on your computer, how often you save files , etc.

If the music industry wanted to go after you for downloading the music, they do not have to find it on your hard drive. They can look at the records of your ISP and see what you have downloaded without having to look at your computer. In fact, people who no longer had the music on their computer have been charged with downloading even if they had deleted the music.

Answer 4

Well if you want to get away from data that you have downloaded illegal music.. then might as well reformat your hard drive to completely delete all those traces/logs which you have done in your computer. You may also want to try open your command (Start -> Run) and type in "%temp%" hit enter, then delete all those temp files in that folder only. Then empty your recycle bin again.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Its deleted from your files but its not gone forever. But dont worry about music. If everyone who illegally downloaded music got caught, 98% of the world population would be included.

Answer 6

nothing is lost that is even deleted off the "recycle bin"
simple utiltiies can recover data that has been even deleted from the recycle bin.
still there are applications and methiods whereby data that has been written over many a times can be retrieved.
some helpful utilitie (secure delete and data recovery)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/SDelete.mspx

there was another utility (recycle bin recovery) from www.sysinternals.net .. funny recycle bib i guess,i will post the url for download once i recall where i got it from

Answer 7

Anything you do is on your hard drive even if you delete it from the recycle bin.

Answer 8

Once you have emptied your Recycle Bin, you are most likely not going to be able to recover it. You're just out of luck.
If you are a computer whiz that might know how to recover it through some back door program, then you probably wouldn't ask :) but yes, it's gone~

Answer 9

No it is not off your HDD. When you delete a file and empty the Bin all that is removed is the header to the file. This will allow the computer to overwrite that space when it has to. Eventually it will be overwritten but there's no telling when.

Answer 10

It depends what it is. If it is like a simple word document, yes. If it is Microsoft Office, no. If you want to delete something off your computer the right way, go to Start, Control Panel, and "Add or Remove Programs" and click the program which you want to remove, and then it is gone for sure.

Answer 11

Technically, it's still there for now, but I wouldn't worry about it. It will be written over in time, and I doubt anybody is going to get a court order and spend the money it takes to recover that information.