Russian Roulette with your windows files

[Scorpia]

i'll put a revolver to my motherboard and see how many spins it takes. and for extra fun i'll only put bullets in 6 of the chambers

[saja]

Do you really think that the data on your hard disk disappears at the moment you delete it? ...

 

The possibility of successful data recovery surely depends upon the method(s) used to delete the original files?

 

Okay, let's be honest. What I wrote wasn't the whole truth. This is a bit more complex thing. The successful data recovery depends on

• the HDD-s health (if it is an HDD and not an SSD or CF card, or flash memory),
  
• {the amount of data used for indexing of the windows operating system * the time you used windows since the deletion * the multiplical inverse of your HDD-s free space} is minimal (in normal cases this has no effect for half a year, depends on the HDD capacity, free space, etc.),
  
• the partition type hasn't changed 10-15 times (each time to a new kind of partition type),
  
• {the amount of data you deleted * the amount of times you deleted and rewrote data * the size of the rewritten data} is minimal (of course it is easier to lost bigger files),
  
• if it's a flash disk, then if you filled it with data, you wouldn't be able to get the previously deleted files.

In the case of deleting one or more partition the possibility of the full (not just the filesystem and the main files) recovery depends on the disk's usage too.

[Ian]

This reminds me of an Invaders-style game where you had to shoot up aliens, but each alien you killed represented some random file on your computer.

That would be a fun way to wipe your computer.

[Michael Archer]

It's much more entertaining to "rm -rfv /" on a Unix-based operating system.

[Jek Jek Roo]

Will I get money for playing?

[ProHypster]

I'm the closest to a russian here... That should make me good at the game. I will play it.... on my server computer.

 

@Lord Sinister What if in the invaders game you shoot the alien that represents the game folder?????

[Bravetriforcer]

Most of my stuff is junk/games Steam will let me re-download/"private time" images, but if that shit got to System32 or something similar...fuck.

[Dr. Derpy Hooves Ph.D]

I played it on my old dell, and it deleted my "System32" folder.

 

It runs much faster now!