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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Undelete Files with Pandora Recovery
What happens to deleted files after you empty the Recycle Bin?
Strangely enough… they may still be on your hard drive.
To improve system responsiveness, when Windows deletes a file, it does not take the time to actually erase the data encoded on the hard drive. The space occupied by the “deleted” file is treated as empty space — which means the old file may be overwritten by new data at any time. However, if the hard drive has a lot of free space, the old data may remain intact for weeks or months.
Good News: If you accidentally delete a file, you may be able to get your data back…
