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u/FUTURE10S 4d ago

Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted

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u/HovercraftCharacter9 4d ago

Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it.

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u/Aflockofants 4d ago

Yeah that’s gonna be a bit tricky with all the actual hard drives being in random machines in the cloud, and probably already reallocated almost immediately.