Comment on How is it possible for the IT experts to recover data that was erased from a hard drive when the storage of said hard drive appears empty?

_____@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It’s because hard drives don’t turn every written bit into a 0. Instead it tells the operating system that the region you deleted is free for writing again.

At some point in the future through usage that region will either be corrupted or have something completely different in it (from our perspective though it may read as corrupt it will still work as expected when written into)

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