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dhlucke   03-24-2002 at 08:29:58 PM

1. If you delete something off your computer, then format the computer and install off a ghosted image, can you find out the date those orginal files were deleted before the format?

2. If you copy stuff from a hard drive to disk, can someone find out the date you did that?

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Tom_Smart   03-24-2002 at 10:38:20 PM
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1. yes but only with specialist data recovery software. if you want something gone for good then use a utility like Norton Wipeinfo or PGP Wipe i think the latter removes all references to the file from the os. if you are using NTFS then you will have even more problems. look <A HREF="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23759.html" target="_new"> here</A>.

2. yes. just right clicking the files icon and selecting properties will reveal this info, i did have a utility that allows you to alter this info but can't find it and have no idea what it was called.

Although it has a lot of good ideas, beer doesn't know anything about computers!!!

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