So i was enjoying some down time for myself the other night taking a nice warm bath and letting my mind wander when i suddenly recalled a time when i worked at a research station and some idiot managed to somehow delete over 3000 excel spreadsheets worth of recently collected data. I was charged with recovering the data and scanning through everything to make sure it was ok and nothing deleted…must have spent nearly 2 weeks scanning through endless pages…and it just barely dawned on me to wonder…exactly…how the hell do data recovery tools collect “lost data”???
I get like a general idea of like how as long as like that “save location” isnt written over with new data, then technically that data is still…there???? I…thats as much as i understand.
Thanks much appreciated!
And for those wondering, it wasnt me, it was my first week on the job as the only SRA for that station and the person charged with training me for the day…i literally watched him highlight all the data, right click, and click delete on the data and then ask “where’d it all go?!?”
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Let’s say you have a fridge with a bunch of food in it. On the door of the fridge is a written list of everything inside and on what shelf it’s on. When you want to ‘delete’ something from the fridge, you can just erase it from the list without actually removing the food. If you need to add more food to the fridge, you can remove anything that isn’t on the list to make room for the new food. After it is removed from the list, but before it is actually removed from the fridge, you can still open the fridge and see what’s there.
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