December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
328 pages
8h 29m
English
When a user deletes any data from a device, the data is not actually erased from the device and continues to exist on it. What gets deleted is the pointer to that data. All filesystems contain metadata, which maintains information about the hierarchy of files, filenames, and so on. Deletion will not really erase the data but instead removes the file system metadata. Thus, when text messages or any other files are deleted from a device, they are just made invisible to the user, but the files are still present on the device as long as they are not overwritten by some other data. Hence, there is the possibility of recovering them before new data is added and occupies the space. Deleting the pointer and marking ...
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