In some software like tune up, they serve a utility that helps us to recover permanently deleted files from memory, how is this possible ? What really happens in hard disk/ memory when we [SHIFT]+[DELETE] a file ?
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Jump to PostWhen a file is deleted from within an operating system, the OS instructs the drive that the file should be marked for deletion. The hard drive does not write data over the current data stored. It just marks the space that the data is occupying as available. So, as long …
Jump to PostI've done that in the past using raw sector editors. You usually have to boot into a live CD/DVD/USB system to do that, and it is very dangerous - you really need to know precisely how the file system is organized, and that is not always easy. All file system …
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