Re: A Little Help With Disk Cleaning/security

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Date: 09/13/05

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    Date: 13 Sep 2005 08:42:08 -0700

    quote: "I think you need to be more concerned the actual data on a
    drive rather than the unused area
    of said drive."

    Maybe he wants to ensure that deleted files cant be recovered. Deleting
    the file just removes a flag that basically says here I am and this
    sector is in use. Deleting the file just removes that flag not the
    file. If a new file has not overwritten the deleted one, it is quite
    easy to recover.

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