2007-02-16 18:00:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Actually, when you delete files on your computer they're just moved to another part of your hard drive!
This is proven by using software to get back deleted files...Like Ontrack EasyRecovery Pro.
The only way you can really destroy the files is to overwrite them at least 7 times...this makes them unreadable.
2007-02-16 18:10:29 · answer #1 · answered by MUff1N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is part of Einstein's theory. Anyway, when the energy from the files is deleted then they go back to the free space of the drive. So if you delete a 2 Mb file, then your HDD has 2 Mb more of space.
2007-02-17 02:07:59 · answer #2 · answered by Big C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Computer files are not energy in and of themselves - computer files are a specific arrangement of energy.
For example, if you were to put a book through a shredder, the book would be gone. There would be nothing readable left. But you'd still have all the paper and ink that the book was made out of.
2007-02-17 02:08:43 · answer #3 · answered by extton 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I think it is one of Dalton's rules, although it is not necessarily true since the invention of atomic bombs and nuclear weapons. Computer files have no energy.
2007-02-17 02:05:13 · answer #4 · answered by Jon's Mom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. As you might have heard, computer works on 101010 patterns. When you delete something, then the electrons go back to their deafalt state. I asked a same question to my prof one day.
2007-02-17 02:05:59 · answer #5 · answered by shkabaj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
data in files are not energy
they are just state of ON and OFF
When data is deleted, nothing is mission or destroyed
2007-02-17 02:09:07 · answer #6 · answered by sm bn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The particles on the drive, are simply realigned.
2007-02-17 02:07:08 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋