Just because you delete a file on your computer doesn’t mean it’s gone, and that’s true for both older mechanical hard drives as well as solid state drives and flash drives . Yet on the flip side, just because data can linger on a storage drive doesn’t mean you can always recover files that have been deleted, corrupted, or otherwise lost. Let’s do some mythbusting. Join me as we explore what actually happens when you delete a file, how it differs depending on the...

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