I thought that, for example, if you have a 1 gb hard drive, and you download a 500 mb movie, then delete it, then download another, and delete it, that even though no space is taken up, you still have those two 500 mb movies buried somewhere deep in there. Is that not the case?
So even though the hard drive is only so large, that doesn’t mean many kids gigs worth of stuff aren’t still buried deep in the computer.
Am I way off?
If you downloaded the two movies you filled the drive to its capacity. When you deleted them you freed up that room for more data, but until you started adding that data the movies still exist. The movies are only truly wiped out when data is added that overwrites the space they were taking. If you filled the drive again without deleting anything the movies would be deleted. There was 200MB of existing data on the laptop. The most that could have been remaining of any deleted data would have been 300MB not the 450MB that Maxey claimed to have recently discovered. He is either lying, or Dave's source is lying. I had already suspected Maxey was lying before Dave revealed his history, and that pretty much confirmed my suspicions.
Are you fucking stupid or what? There is only so much storage room on a disc for the positive and negative charges that represent bytes to be arranged, and yes restored computers with most programs only erase the register so those bytes of information are still there, but once the space they occupied are written over with current data they are wiped out.
What the forensic computer programs find is the data that has not been written over yet. A computer with a 500MB hard drive that has 200MB of current data does not have room for 450MB of hidden (deleted) data.
I thought that, for example, if you have a 1 gb hard drive, and you download a 500 mb movie, then delete it, then download another, and delete it, that even though no space is taken up, you still have those two 500 mb movies buried somewhere deep in there. Is that not the case? So even though the hard drive is only so large, that doesn’t mean many kids gigs worth of stuff aren’t still buried deep in the computer. Am I way off?
Depends. Was it a SSD or a HDD? SSD have wear leveling. HDD tend to put stuff in the quickest accessible portion.
Do we know if Hunter's laptop used disk compression?
If you downloaded the two movies you filled the drive to its capacity. When you deleted them you freed up that room for more data, but until you started adding that data the movies still exist. The movies are only truly wiped out when data is added that overwrites the space they were taking. If you filled the drive again without deleting anything the movies would be deleted. There was 200MB of existing data on the laptop. The most that could have been remaining of any deleted data would have been 300MB not the 450MB that Maxey claimed to have recently discovered. He is either lying, or Dave's source is lying. I had already suspected Maxey was lying before Dave revealed his history, and that pretty much confirmed my suspicions.
Are you fucking stupid or what? There is only so much storage room on a disc for the positive and negative charges that represent bytes to be arranged, and yes restored computers with most programs only erase the register so those bytes of information are still there, but once the space they occupied are written over with current data they are wiped out.
What the forensic computer programs find is the data that has not been written over yet. A computer with a 500MB hard drive that has 200MB of current data does not have room for 450MB of hidden (deleted) data.