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Linux and Apple have a Trash Bin on flash memory, pretty much all drives, and even Zip-drives on Apple Computer have one. In most cases, that’s the best precaution of all. That’s the other way to recover deleted files: if they’ve been backed up elsewhere before they were deleted. If a file on flash memory can’t be recovered using undelete utilities the chances of it being recovered are next to nil. The forensic techniques used to recover data on magnetic hard drives don’t work on flash drives they’re solid state, without magnetic material. One of the ways a USB device differs from a true hard drive is if it’s based on flash memory, as most USB thumb drives are. I’ve done this only rarely, but if the drive has not been used since the delete, a good undelete utility may be able to recover it.
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If you continue to use the drive, the chances of actually recovering a file on it disappear quickly. The ability to recover a truly deleted file is extremely dependent on other activity on the drive. When you do delete a file and there’s no Recycle Bin to save you, you may still have a few options. The good news about USB drives is that they are treated as just that: disk drives. The Recycle Bin is only a safety net, and as we’ve seen, you may not be able to count on it always being there. In other words, whenever you delete, make sure you mean it. Always assume that deleting a file means the file will be deleted, permanently and forever. The Recycle Bin is not intended to be a temporary storage location, and you shouldn’t treat it like one. Well, one piece of advice I can certainly give you: don’t rely on the Recycle Bin. I can only assume it’s somehow related to the size of the drive.
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In fact, since I move that external hard drive from system to system (and I still have almost all versions of Windows), it has both “\RECYCLER” as well as “\$Recycle.Bin”.īoth are removable USB drives one gets a Recycle Bin, the other does not. My 32GB USB thumb drive has no Recycle Bin, but my 250GB external USB drive does.