Re: what happens to deleted files

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philo wrote:

"Jspeedo" <Jspeedo.19ead2e@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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what happens to deleted files? where do they go after you empty your
recycle bin? Is their away to wipe these files away without having to
reinstall everything?






The files are still there...but simply marked as free space...so could be
recovered.

If you want to make them essentially un-recoverable there are plenty of
third party "wipe" utilites that will shred them to the point where they'd
only be recoverable
with expensive and time consuming lab work.

That "...[they] can only be recoverable with expensive and time consuming lab work" can officially be classified in the "Urban Myths" category. Nobody has ever been able to recover overwriten files, not even Dr. Gutmann himself, he has told me so in an email conversation. I challenge anyone reading these groups to offer concrete proof that they can recover zero written/wiped files or to give us the names of data recovery firms who can do it.

John
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