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will this method clean deleted files off my hard drive for good?
If I delete files from my hard drive they still exist until
overwritten correct? If I fill my hard drive up with big files until it is full will that overwrite the deleted files? |
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will this method clean deleted files off my hard drive for good?
Hardly Excel stuff but here goes
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...scription.html -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "Joe" wrote in message ups.com... If I delete files from my hard drive they still exist until overwritten correct? If I fill my hard drive up with big files until it is full will that overwrite the deleted files? |
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will this method clean deleted files off my hard drive for good?
File handling is done by your operating system. The important thing to
remember is that the OS does not delete files but rather it forgets that it ever put a file there and considers that space to be free to use. If it uses that space for something else then it overwrites the file that you had. If it does not use that space then your file remains. Undelete programs scan the free space on your hard drive looking for file headers and attempt to recreate the files that have not been overwritten. Also note that the disk does not discern between areas that have been previously uses and areas that have not. Free space is free space and it will write anywhere in th efree space. (This is a little bit simplified but you get the idea). -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Joe" wrote: If I delete files from my hard drive they still exist until overwritten correct? If I fill my hard drive up with big files until it is full will that overwrite the deleted files? |
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