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2. Data erasure - Wikipedia

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   Data erasure. Data erasure (sometimes referred to as data clearing, data wiping, or data destruction) is a software-based method of data sanitization that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residing on a hard disk drive or other digital media by overwriting data onto all sectors of the device in an irreversible process.

3. Data remanence - Wikipedia

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   Data remanence is the residual representation of digital data that remains even after attempts have been made to remove or erase the data. This residue may result from data being left intact by a nominal file deletion operation, by reformatting of storage media that does not remove data previously written to the media, or through physical properties of the storage media that allow previously ...

4. Eraser (software) - Wikipedia

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   Eraser is an open-source [1] secure file erasure tool available for the Windows operating system. [2][3][4][5] It supports both file and volume wiping. [6][2] Eraser securely erases data by overwriting it such that the data is irrecoverable. [1] It supports a variety of data destruction standards, including British HMG IS5 (Infosec Standard 5 ...

5. Search and Recover FAQs - AOL Help

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   AOL's Search and Recover can assist you in locating any lost files or folders that may have been mistakenly deleted. Search and Recover is able to perform recoveries for many digital media and devices including cameras, music players, CDs, DVDs, memory cards and flash drives. Please note that solid state drives aren't covered.

6. Gutmann method - Wikipedia

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   Gutmann method. The Gutmann method is an algorithm for securely erasing the contents of computer hard disk drives, such as files. Devised by Peter Gutmann and Colin Plumb and presented in the paper Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory in July 1996, it involved writing a series of 35 patterns over the region to be erased.

7. Trash (computing) - Wikipedia

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   In versions of Windows prior to Windows Vista, the default configuration of the Recycle Bin is a global setting for all drives to hold 10% of the total capacity of each host hard drive volume to store deleted files. For example, on a volume with a capacity of 20 gigabytes, the Recycle Bin will hold up to 2 gigabytes of deleted files.