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Old 03-24-2010, 12:59 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Homeslice View Post
They're probably still there. When you empty your recycle bin, you're not actually wiping out the file, you're just telling the computer that it's OK to overwrite that file with another file. But if that hasn't happened yet, the file still exists.
Those chunks of HD are available for writing, that's why it's important not to save anything right now, if possible. You could make your files unrecoverable.
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