Data remanence is the residual representation of data that have been in some way nominally erased or removed. This residue may be due to data being left intact by a nominal delete operation, or through physical properties of the storage medium. Data remanence may make inadvertent disclosure of sensitive information possible, should the storage media [...]
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The need for shredding data from your Hard Drive
Permanent erasure of data is something that is more than just simple pressing of the delete button, which is capable only of deleting, but not erasing permanently from the hard drive.There are physical data erasure methods like degaussing, but these make the disk unusable once the process is completed.Therefor, many people prefer to go for [...]
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 [...]