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Tom MacIntyre wrote in message <37c2b812.14321141@news1.ns.sympatico.ca>...
>"Aaron" <chaaron@lave.net> wrote:
>
>>>I'll try to explain it...temporary file creation and deletion,
>>>naturally occurring...the growth of a swapfile beyond its set lower
>>>limit, naturally occurring. Also, and this may be wrong, or at least
>>>outdated...I THINK I recall that new file storage will possibly leave
>>>alone open clusters from recently deleted files, as long as other
>>>clusters are available...I may be off the mark on that. I'll admit to
>>>having never taken a course in this stuff, having only done a lot of
>>>reading and a bit of experimentation. I'm not at the moment a
>>>professional in this field, but I've worked on a lot of computers for
>>>friends and family, and also volunteered to help maintain the computer
>>>system at the school my kids attend, and I do have some on-the-job
>>>experience as well. It's entirely possible though, that I've picked up
>>>a myth/fallacy or two along the way...one of the reasons why I'm here.
>>>
>>>Tom
>>
>>Well Tom, for an uneducated guy, you seem to know a lot.
>>And have a better grip on the situation that Rod Speed, who has
>>claimed to have been in this stuff for 3 decades.
>
>Thanks...
>>
>>He says he has a drive with a "clean install" that has files all over
>>the place.  He doesn't understand what a "clean install" leaves behind.
>>A lot of files are copied to the disk during installation of Win98,
>>and then deleted after install is finished.  Plus the swapfile could
>>have been set very large for the install, and is now at it's default size.
>>And YES files to tend to write to free areas of the disk that don't
>>have recently deleted files on them, just incase you want to undelete
>>the files.  Even though you have the Recycle Bin, which keeps files
>>from actually being deleted, if you empty it, the OS doesn't use
>>that space right away.  But it might the next day after turning the
>>system on.  Of course, it's hard to undelete files nowadays, since
>>MS removed the UNDELETE.COM command from Windows.
>>Stupid Recycle Bin.
>
>Undelete was a very useful thing...too bad it's gone, but there are
>other ways. By the way, do you know for sure if Disk Editor from
>Norton 8 for DOS will work with a FAT32 disk in its maintenance mode.
>That was a little used but VERY valuable tool. I suspect that it won't
>work, but I haven't tried it.
>
>Tom

Well, it should still work, as it reads the bits on the drive, not what
OS or FAT style they are.  Many of the features may not be able to
work, but just to go in and look around should be OK.  I haven't tried
that either.  Maybe all you will be able to see is the binary data,
and not see the directory views and such.  Great thing to experiment on.
--
Aaron Marks