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Erasing data permanently from your hard drive

Windows operating system does not permanently erase data when a file is deleted using shift+del key combination or emptied the recycle bin. The allocation area or the index of the file system (FAT or NTFS) marks the area used by the deleted file as empty. The actual raw contents of the files are constantly present [...]