Any file deleted is not removed from the hard drive. When you delete a file all you are doing is removing its location on the hard drive from the "Table of Contents". When you format a hard drive it creates a file table, FAT32 for Win98 and NTFS for XP, the file table is very similar to a book's table of contents in which it stores the location of where data is written on the disk. When you delete a file, you just delete the entry from the file table and not from the disk itself. To completely remove the data from the hard drive you need to use a scrubber program that writes and rewrites random data in the "empty" locations on the hard drive. Care must be used when using scrubbing programs due to that needed data may be deleted as well. If you do use one, first defrag your hard drive to have all the blank space in one area, thus lessening the chance of data damage.
2007-02-26 19:58:32
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answered by Mortis 4
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You would have to use a computer forensic tool to recovery the data.
If the drive was not formatted you have a great chance of recovery.
The way it works like a book the drive has an "index". When you erase using the recylce bin windows just erases the index entry and not the actual data until it has been overwritten by new data.
Try winhex.
2007-02-27 03:13:04
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answered by nothin_nyce1 4
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yup it is possible to view deleted files by some good recovery software. if u want to delete it permanently use mcafee thrash option or other otions available on the net or it will be overwritten automatically if u r doing quite a lot works.
basic principle is that when we delete file from recycle,just address is lost but file is not erased. when we create files or other things and store them on harddisk it will overwrite on deleted file.
i think that's a lot.
otherwise u can google it for more.....
2007-02-27 03:17:51
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answered by Tarun J 2
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There are lot of software available to recover your deleted file from hard disk. You can search on net for that and try the trial version.
2007-02-27 04:31:02
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answered by VRC 1
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yes it`s possible, to delete permanently i use "System Mechanic 6"
2007-02-27 03:20:06
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answered by Nima 1
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as they said its true, you may want something with a bit more umph, if there delicate documents, if so try BCWipe for destroying them adn to recover then use 'RecoverMyFiles'
2007-02-27 04:09:28
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answered by origamix60 3
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