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how does storing in a PC drive works? what happen when we delete? where does the deleted file go?

how does storing in a PC drive works? what happen when we delete? where does the deleted file go?

Answer:

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when you delete somthing it is really still there The computer just designates the area on the hard drive as free and the info you deleted will remain there until the computer writes over it
Data is physically written to sectors and tracks with a directory area that acts as a index to the data. When you delete the data, only the directory area is really updated. So, the data is pretty much still there, but it is marked as free space so that another file can be written to that sector and track. You must physically overwrite that location (lots of freeware available to do this) if you wish that information to be truly gone.

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