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Uploaded by on Jun 13, 2007

http://live.pirillo.com/ - When you delete a file are you really erasing it from the hard drive? Not really.

When you delete a file (like dragging it to the recycle bin and deleting it) Windows just marks the hard drive space as unused.

Erased files are overwritten many times until the data can no longer be recovered.

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  • Can the police still find stuff on your computer even if you overwrite 1000 times

  • I've found that a magnetron works well.

  • Huh?

  • Huh?

  • eyet[.]com

  • Idk either man. I downloaded a ton of music and some crazy suicide bomber videos and crazy shit and I want the files gone gone gone, idk how to get rid of it all as best as possible. Someone respond!!!!!! Ive "deleted them" and taken them outta the recycle bin, but that does nothing essentially.

  • I need help Deleteing the OLD files on a Recovery Partition. I cant get in the partition manualy and i cant delete anything from it i dont know why. It is on a HP Labtop. Series HP Pavilion DV 8000 Anyone know how i can get into the HP recover Partition and maualy delete the old files from a Backup?

  • Deleting a file just marks those allocated data clusters (on the disk surface) as "free" and removes the file name from the used filetable. Can be recovered, even if there has been a writeover (a laboratory can do this). This is due to magnetic hysteresis in the surface material, allowing 0.1's and 0.9's and 1.1's sort of, not pure 0's and 1's.

    Erasing means multiple overwrites with random data to remove this magnetic "residue" physically, and then does a normal delete.

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