FILE FROM THE Recycle Bin meant deleting the file for good-no traces. no loose ends, no problem. But what really happens immediately after you delete a file from the Recycle Bin. or more importantly [Shift]+[Delete] a file from its location is that the operating system merely removes the information that points to the file's physical location on the hard drive. It doesn't erase the file itself from that location. How dumb is that for Windows?

Of course, humans as we are, we aren't without our moronic moments eitherbulk-deleting files on your hard drive without a second thought. for example. In times like these. a data recovery software often comes to the rescue. When you search around on the Web you'll encounter a lot of data recovery softwares that claim to recover every deleted file from your pc. However high their claim may be, their fate is essentially governed by a simple concept: probability. The thing that ultimately decides whether a deleted file can be recovered in its entirety is time. As time passes after unknowingly deleting an important file, and before you realize your mistake. the chances of it remaining physically intact (in one piece) on the hard drive get thinner. If you're someone who copies and deletes files on your hard drive a lot, chances are your hard drive will overwrite that location with new data in no time.

Data recovery software work on the premise of looking for bits of data on the hard drive which isn't pointed at by the operating system. Their chances of recovering a file in its entirety reduce drastically if the hard drive has rewritten new data on that portion. Almost always these software are able to recover parts of the filewhich is meaningless. say. for a Word document-and a complete file recovery is a rare and rather obscure occurrence.