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winXP restore function gets files back from the dead?

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TOraptor

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Hi all,
I was shocled to see the files that I deleted in the morning come back to my system in the evening when i restored the system to a checkpoint set one day back.

Can anyone tell me how that happened. I mean these are not just a few small sized files i am talking about. I am talking about over 100 Megs of files that came back from I dont know where.

and the recycle bin was empty!.

I swear I saw the space in the Hard Drive shoot up when i deleted them in the morning but i have it occupied again after the restore.

I am awed

TO_raptor
 
This isn't really a big deal.

Even when a file is totally deleted all that is actually happen is that it's reference in the file allocation table is removed. The file is still sitting on the disk, it will sit there until the area of the disk it was on is actually over-written.

XP probably maintains a snapshot of FAT entries and can restore them in the event of a rollback.

If you had waited weeks or months and then did the rollback it would be more likely that some of the files would have not been recoverable.
 
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