How can files that have been deleted and no longer take up space on a hard drive be recoverable?
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Yes!
But how difficult it is will differ greatly how long ago the delete happened.
Generally deleting files will not actually remove the data. It will just declare that space free to be overwritten, but a simple file restoration tool will be able to find it again.
If the files were already (partially) overwritten they can still be restored, but then you’re looking at like $10k for a professonional to take your harddrive apart and systematically look for residual charges of files that lived there in the past. This will usually only happen when the file is either super valuable or relevant for uncovering a crime
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