And would you be able to delete from there ?
2007-03-05 08:51:40 · 17 answers · asked by all_1 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Its on the hard drive until its overwritten. You would be hard pressed to find it too! It doesnt move it anywhere! Its simply set to be overwritten!
2007-03-05 08:54:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can never fully delete anything from a computer.
Imagine if you like, taking a bit of paper and drawing something on it and then drawing something else on top of it and then something else on top of that etc etc ad infinitum.
Basically when you 'delete' something from the recyle bin on a computer, you are moving to a compressed folder where everything you 'delete' is then put on top of. The computer compresses it until it is such a small file. And although there is no real way for you to re-access these files and get them back. Computer experts can take your hard drive apart and use things to un-compress these folders.
So basically, even when you delet something off a computer it is still there in some form.
2007-03-05 08:56:23 · answer #2 · answered by Alistair B 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as fully deleted. The item you empty from your Recycle bin would not be accessible anymore using standard procedures but the data would still be somewhere on the Hard Drive. This data can be accessed using special programs.
2007-03-05 12:26:41 · answer #3 · answered by Data 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deleting files from the recycling bin simply removes the entry from the File Allocation Table (FAT) or index.
The file still exists, until the area of hard drive that it occupies is overwritten.
There are programs that can discover where these files are and restore the entry in the FAT or index.
2007-03-05 09:05:03 · answer #4 · answered by David P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Technically, when you move something to the recycle bin, you're moving it to another section on the drive. Thus, when you empty the recycle bin, you're simply moving it again to an unseen part of the drive (to the Operating System). It's still there, and there are tools you can use to get it back. Similarly, there are disk wiping tools you can get to erase it three four, millions of times, but it will never be gone.
2007-03-05 08:54:57 · answer #5 · answered by DizzyDream 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
All the computer recycling bins on the planet are emptied into one big rubbish pit out in cyberspace. The gods of the Internet browse through it all and occasionally find something useful. When they do they send it down to George Bush and Tonto Blair and they drop a nuke on it. So don't worry about it it is taken care of by the war mongering capitalist lackeys.
2007-03-05 08:58:43 · answer #6 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you've deleted an item from your recycling bin, it's gone.
Essentially, what you've done is to remove the first part of the filename, thereby removing the reference to the file from your hard disk file allocation table.
If you wanted to restore the file, there are programs that'll scan the drive for these unreferenced files, retrieve them and allow you to save them back to your hard drive.
This is only possible if you act quickly. Installing software or copying files to the disk, may overwrite the file fragments, making them unrecoverable.
2007-03-05 08:58:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No where. It is still on your hard drive, ... deleting it only deletes the memory address from your programs. There are programs that can find deleted addresses and access that data, ... that's why the FBI, etc. can access data you've deleted. There are ways to completely delete data, but that's another question.
2007-03-05 08:56:57 · answer #8 · answered by Owlchemy_ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It never moves. All you did by deleting it was remove the address for the sectors of the hardrive that the info resides on from your Master File Table.
When we investigate criminals we go in and recover all the data they think they erased.
The data is there until it is over written by new data.
Scary eh?
Jack
2007-03-05 09:25:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
By some sort of strange magic it would arrive via Royal Mail through your letter box in 2 to 3 working days.
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2007-03-05 09:04:37 · answer #10 · answered by Lyndon B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would go where most of things yew delete from your computer go its like a bigggggg place where all you deleted files go and it is kept there for like 3 or 4 monthsss then it is completly removed i forgot the name but thats how you get your emails through to it has like a bunch of wires and it is stored in one big areaa
2007-03-05 08:56:55 · answer #11 · answered by FaTiiMa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋