Lucky Recovery

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:37 am

Throughout this past year I have had a number of unfortunate computer file incidents. In one case I lost a hard drive that had a couple year's worth of photos and pdf files (all related to shop activities). Needless to say I was quite upset.

Yesterday I began cleaning out my shed. I have a lot of "stuff" stuck in that shed. Out came two old computers that are destined for Goodwill or the Senior Center.

At the last minute, I decided I better check to make sure they are functional and to verify content of the drives. It is a good thing I did. First of all, one had a large number of personal financial files all of which are now gone. But the big find---a folder of PDFs and a folder of photographs. Combined they total 4.6gbytes; a lot of lost files.

I don't know that this constitutes complete recovery but it sure is a bunch.

pennview · Post by **pennview** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:22 pm

You may already know this, but simply deleting the files from your hard drive doesn't remove the data, it merely removes the pointers the computer uses to find the various files. If you want to prevent the next owner from possibly accessing that data by using recovery software, you must use something like Eraser that you can download for free here -- http://eraser.heidi.ie/

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:54 pm

pennview wrote:You may already know this, but simply deleting the files from your hard drive doesn't remove the data, it merely removes the pointers the computer uses to find the various files. If you want to prevent the next owner from possibly accessing that data by using recovery software, you must use something like Eraser that you can download for free here -- http://eraser.heidi.ie/

Thank you for that reminder and for the link.

maggeorge · Post by **maggeorge** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 11:58 am

Thank you for the post and the link. This is something I may have never known ...

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