Transient Punk@sh.itjust.workstoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How is it possible for the IT experts to recover data that was erased from a hard drive when the storage of said hard drive appears empty?English
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19 days agoOften times when you delete something off a computer, the computer simply deletes the address of the data, but doesn’t overwrite the data.
Think of a map for a city. If you delete a house off the map, you may not be able to find it anymore, but the house is still there. It’s the same for computer storage
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