meegbear
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Thu Apr-12-07 06:17 AM
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you see, computers store information as a series of "ones" and "zeros" and ...
Enough of that bullshit. When you create a file, what's happening is the information is stored on the hard drive and the software creates a 'link' to it. The link stores it's size, location in memory, etc.
When you delete a file, the link is removed and the area is marked as available for writing. So unless the drive is reformatted or a lot of new data is written to the drive, it's there. This is how data recovery companies work; they scan the disk and locate what looks like data and tries to rebuild it.
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