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Originally Posted by sharphead
Actually.... if the original file resides physically on the drive where there is no other data overwritten, then the file will be completely intact. The File Allocation Table are updated and flagged to "release" that sector on the drive to be written over when you mark a file for deletion. Visibly windows just doesn't display the file, but physically it's still there until you copy something over that sector.
Your right.. just elaborating a bit more.  |
Back in the late 80's I had a quick program that repeatedly wrote random 0's and 1's between complete low level formats. 5 in a row left it pretty scrambled, lmfao. Fuckin 10MB full height hard drive cost me hundreds USED too. Sure abused that thing til it's death.
Hardware is different now, but damn that was fun programming in those days.