in life you purchase your electronics your groceries your clothing whatever
else you need you take off the packaging you throw it in the trash can and once a
week someone comes to take it all away it's like magic once it's gone you never
have to worry about it again unfortunately for us the same cannot be
said for deleting files on a computer storage drive for one thing usually
deleting a file just moves it to the recycle bin which has no sanitation
technician who comes and removes it every week it's simply a different
folder location where files are stored indefinitely the file is still there and
anyone with access to your computer can find them
silly Linus once it's in the bin i can just
empty the whole thing with one click and my computer tells me hey this is a
permanent change and that file will no longer be accessible on your computer once you do that and you would be
correct mostly the file is no longer easily accessible on your computer but
there is a huge difference between whether a file is easily accessible and
whether it has actually been removed on
both magnetic and solid-state drives the bits of data that make up your photos
music tax records and whatever else are naturally kind of scattered around and
the way your operating system knows where to find all the pieces is on ntfs
formatted drives anyway through the reference to it in the master file table
so back to deleting stuff removing a file from the recycle bin only removes
the master file table reference that points to the pieces that make up that
file puzzle and registers the space that
it used to take up as empty this gives the operating system permission to go
right over it but that does not mean that right after you clean out your
recycle bin the file is gone not by a
long shot in fact there are many programs that are dedicated to
reconstructing deleted files some of which can do so even after a drive has
been reformatted and using those programs right away like right after an
accidental deletion or reformat before lots of the data has been gradually
overwritten has saved many a person's bacon from costly or upsetting loss of
data but sometimes you want to get rid of files permanently from a storage
drive like if you were going to sell it or donate it in that case how do you do
it well there are a few tried and true methods that we'll highlight today the
first one is to delete all the data on the drive then fill it up to capacity
with new random data over and over again
this method really wipes your whole drives make sure you have any important
family pictures transferred to a new drive before you go ahead and do that
the second is physical destruction of the drive
both fun and effective but obviously you won't be able to donate that drive
that's more for if there's very sensitive data on it that you just need
to get rid of speaking of things that are fun and
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