How can files that have been deleted and no longer take up space on a hard drive be recoverable?
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Computers are generally quite lazy. When you delete a file the computer does not go through the trouble of overwriting the data. It just marks those data blocks as free space in the index. It no longer takes up any space because when you write new data to the disk the computer may overwrite those old files since it is marked as something.
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