Data Recovery?? Hard Drive?? Naughty images??

Question

Hi, I am interested, In ICT class today I heard that say I had a hard drive which was 10GB with some naughty pictures on it, say (p0rn) and I deleted them and it showed the hard drive now had 10GB free space again?

I heard that the images can still be recovered from the hard drive using forensic computing men? I wanted to know if the images are still there why would it say 10GB free space available??

Are the images still on the hard drive like really compressed??

Answer 1

The images are still there. What happens is that the File Allocation Table (FAT) (that's an index of what the contents of the hard drive contains) is marked in such a way that the space that they occupy is marked as available to be written on. If you install new programmes, it occupies the space until, eventually, the area occupied by the pictures is written over. This could, of course, take many times at writing and re-writing data. There are programmes available that will write and re-write random binary digits over the free areas which will prevent the original data being restored.

The only true way to prevent data from being recovered is to destroy the hard drive. i.e., smash the hard drive platter to smithereens.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The files are still there but are not accessible.
They can still be recovered and it does not require a great of expertise to do that.
Should you acquire such a hard drive it might be better for you to hit it with a sledge hammer and buy a new one.

Answer 4

Forensic detectives can recover anything from a Hard Drive, unless it has phisically been destroyed.

Answer 5

Someone recommends some "free" software that says that it does scrub the hard drive. But how would anyone know?

Can that sort of software be trusted?

What if it did worse things?

Or am I paranoid?

Answer 6

What country are you in? What planet are you on?

Unless it's childp0rn nobody would be interested in you flimsy pic's.

Just format the drive if you're that concerned.

PS: Don't forget to delete your tracks in explorer when you've been on the naughty sites.

Answer 7

Get this.