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Info: Files and folders
deleted by Windows are not really removed (immediately) from the file
system. Instead, the File Allocation Table (FAT16 and FAT32
file systems) or Master File Table (NTFS) is marked indicating that
the file has been deleted, and its entry is cleared. The disk space
occupied by the file is declared free for use, but the actual file data is
not immediately removed. It can, however, be over-written; once that
occurs, the file is usually unrecoverable, except possibly in part, by
recovery utilities such as
Recuva, a freeware product by Piriform. |