USB drives are not network drives, but you do have to watch out for the
message "such & so is too large to fit in the recycle bin. Do you want
to delete it permanently?" (or some such).
I think they may still be recoverable even then if you don't write
anything else to the drive after choosing permanent deletion, but it's
going to take some kind of un-delete/file recovery software to do so.
On 12/16/2013 2:07 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote:
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:54 PM, CollinB <coll...@brendemuehl.net> wrote:
This seems to be a common misconception. For details:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en
-us/recycle_bin.mspx?mfr=true
On short, deleted files from local hard drives (even external ones)
will be placed in the Recycle Bin _unless_ you specify otherwise. The
Recycle Bin can be configured independently for every hard drive.
So the deleted files *may* be on her main system?
I'm quoting and annotating the document that Attila was referring to:
~~~~
The Recycle Bin provides a safety net when deleting files or folders.
When you delete any of these items from your hard disk, Windows places
it in the Recycle Bin and the Recycle Bin icon changes from empty to
full. Items deleted from a floppy disk or a network drive are
permanently deleted and are not sent to the Recycle Bin.
~~~~
The key words are "floppy disk or a network drive", which if I'm
not mistake are what Windows XP thinks about removable drives (even if
their underlaying technology is a rotating disk, flash drive, SSD, or
plain old floppy).
Fortunately the "permanently deleted" phrase is not almost always
true, as the data still lingers on the drive for a "while" (i.e. until
something else over-writes it.)
Small detour: for SSD drives, or other types of hardware,
supporting the `TRIM` (or was it `DISCARD`?) operation, and for those
file-systems that support that operation (I know some only on Linux),
this deletion becomes quite "permanent" for the "usual" user. (I.e.
I'm certain that specialized people could get back the data, but only
through specialized hardware and software.)
~~~~
Windows allocates one Recycle Bin for each partition or hard disk. If
your hard disk is partitioned, or if you have more than one hard disk
in your computer, you can specify a different size for each Recycle
Bin.
~~~~
This means that for the deletion to `Recycle Bin`, Windows won't
move your files from one disk to another. (I.e. if you delete your
files and then format the disk, the `Recycle Bin` and its files on
that disk also disappear.)
Ciprian.
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