How Does Digital Image Recovery Software Work?
Q&A: How Does Digital Image Recovery Software Work? Saturday August 23, 2003#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)Earlier in the week, I posted a collection of links for Digital Photo Rescue and Recovery Software. In the forum, Dave is asking “How Does it work?” Les provides a good answer. In the wonderful world of computers, there is one important rule to remember: NOTHING IS EVER REALLY GONE! “Deleting” a file on Windows or Mac OS (Linux/Unix too) only removes a marker to the file. This makes it invisible to the casual user, and allows the OS to overwrite parts of the file if needed. The file is still there in all its glory, waiting for a recovery tool to find it. There are “milspec” wiping tools that allow you to do a pretty thorough job of obliter
