When I delete things from my USB-stick I'm always asked if I want it permanently deleted. Is there anything that can recreate those files? Or are they in fact totally gone?
When I delete things from my USB-stick I'm always asked if I want it permanently deleted...
Robert Scott
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Benjamin Fisher
this question is just to remind you it doesn't go to the waste bin like when you delete something from an internal drive.
If you just delete, then put the stick aside the data can most likely be restored. Each time you write new data to the stick, the chance of restoring the original data is reduced. Since you can't control "where" on the stick data is written, your best bet to make the data gone for good is to physically destroy the device or put it up your anus.
Nolan Scott
Thanks, Sir. But what if I reformat it? Will that be good enough?
Thomas Sanders
depends on who you are hiding from. your mom? yes. The IT student next door? maybe. The gov? no.
Jonathan Morgan
Copy random files to it until it's full. Then delete some of those files to create room again.
Cameron Brooks
Yes, recoverable
>Op doesn't realize deleting a dildo my makes that specific directory "unavailable" and tells the system the file space is now available.
>Op doesn't know how to cipher
>Op probably assumes cipher means encrypt, which it does not
Benjamin Torres
He would have to do this hundreds of times. At that rate. Just melt the damn thing
Grayson Collins
Brody Robinson
Operating systems only delete the location of the file from the file allocation table. The data itself is still there but the space is marked as free so data written to the drive can overwrite it if required.
Just do a full format of the drive in windows (uncheck quick format) and it'll be unrecoverable to all but those with a scanning electron microscope.
Kayden Reyes
>Just melt the damn thing
OP is a poorfag surely
Jason Murphy
My experience is: simple deleting can be recovered by basically any software. Reformating can not be recovered by commonly available software. But there must be a reason why the standard for the militatry is like 30 rewrites.
I think vsauce made a good video about it
Julian Lopez
>Shirley
Ian Martinez
Your experience is paramount to dog shit
Gabriel Sanders
Google search that shit yourself you lazy fuck. There are free programs somewhere to recover those deleted files. I use to use those free programs when I had a teenage kid using a computer to see exactly what the fuck they were up to while ignoring the rules of the house.
Ryder Collins
These
Brody Davis
Don't call me Shirley
Liam Carter
what op is actually saying
>I found this USB stick and the coomer in me thinks there are naked pictures on it, how do I see them
the nudes aren't 100% gone, but they're too corrupted to see
Connor Cook
So... Why are you associated with a missing child...
Angel Thomas
Wrong again.
ITT:2/9 posters who know their shit
Both are likely not Shirley
Owen Allen
> My experience is: simple deleting can be recovered by basically any software.
your experience? any software? show us all the different software you are using to do this.
William Clark
>go to the waste bin like when you delete something from an internal drive.
lrn2compuer, it doesn't matter what type of storage you have, the same thing happens to internal drives, the memory reference is deleted to free it to be overwritten which is what you described.
After that, depends on your OS. If it is a windows partition, yes most likely it gets 'permanently' erased fairly quickly because for some reason windows is obsessed with keeping addresses "close" in memory (hence, the need to defragmentate), while linux will simply save wherever is optimal so that data may not get overwritten for some time.
no
This is only solution, there are tools to do this and write garbage data to the device. on linux, something like dev nul > /dev/sdb or wherever the device is will work.
Joshua Sanchez
Paramount is the movie company right?
Xavier Peterson
i recovered a porn archive i deleted 5 years ago on my primary hd (sees heavy use) using recuva
Kayden Foster
ehh... fuck you? if you know any software that can recover data after formating, you can prove me wrong
Xavier Adams
>But there must be a reason why the standard for the militatry is like 30 rewrites
paranoia
2 rewrites would be required to corrupt the data too much to be recovered. there are programs out there that will fill the drive to capacity then erase everything and do it again. as long as it's just writing garbage binary, the first wipe will make 90% of the data unreadable, the second wipe will knock out another 9%. you'd have to be very unlucky for that 1% of remaining data to be of use
Grayson James
>on linux, something like dev nul > /dev/sdb or wherever the device is will work.
cp /dev/urandom /dev/sdb
Hunter Jones
No. Every time you delete a file it still has fragments of the original data. It leaves it's "fingerprints" behind inside the storage device. It's literally impossible to truly remove 100% of all data ever. The best you can do is try to overwrite that data enough times or just completely destroy the flash drive with a hammer or something.
The best software you can hope to get to overwrite the data is called "Eraser". It can overwrite the data 35x but takes a very long time to do.
Anthony Richardson
recuva might get some files off it, stellar phoenix will get any recoverable files more quickly, and thoroughly.
Gavin Hill
I think he meant 'tantamount' don't tell him that