PDG
11/18/2004, 04:44 AM
Probably not.
[quote=Website] Your first thought may be that when you delete the file, the data is gone. Not quite, when you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.[/quote]
So with that wonderful news, here is a free application (http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/) that wipes your drive with advanced algorithms. You can thank the Open Source GPL community for it.
[quote=Website] Your first thought may be that when you delete the file, the data is gone. Not quite, when you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.[/quote]
So with that wonderful news, here is a free application (http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/) that wipes your drive with advanced algorithms. You can thank the Open Source GPL community for it.