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Computer Forensics - What happens when you delete a file?

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Uploaded by on May 7, 2008

Computer Forensics Expert Steve Burgess explains what's left over when a file is deleted, and what happens when it is created http://www.burgessforensics.com

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  • i want to get into this field. is this a good career?

  • Sooo thers GHOUSTS IN COMP ?!!!

  • toobin151 are you talking about FAT because that's not how NTFS marks a file as deleted

  • Great video. Thanks

  • @Finchpcrepair Oh wow! I want to learn how computer forensics works so I can get my old files if my hard drive ever dies... Instead of charging an entire company to do it lol... And if I am going to be making my webhosting company in the future it would be useful to know this stuff :D

  • @runescaperocx Not completely. You can format a hard drive and still find most of the files with the right software. Using something such as DBAN, you can totally erase all files. It would take a professional company a lot of time to recover the files, if they can even do that at all.

  • What about formatting? Does that delete it?

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  • can a computer forensics expert see stuff that has been overwritten?

  • I use the tune up shredder. That does delete it

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