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11-23-2011, 03:24 PM
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 |  How to protect external hard disk from accidental deletion?
I have a Seagate External Hard disk(2TB) containing most of the important documents/videos related to my work(Mostly CCTV videos Iam required to keep for a while). I once accidentally pressed delete and enter in the number pad on the right side of keyboard and lost 30 GB folder in a second. Is there any software to protect files from accidents like this? |
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11-23-2011, 04:55 PM
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If you don't write anything after you delete something, it can almost certainly be undeleted. Otherwise, there's the risk of deleted files being overwritten (when you normally delete a file, it isn't physically erased, it just tells a "catalog" of files that the file is deleted and the physical space can be overwritten with something else). Also, see fsLock. Also, if you're using NTFS on that hard-drive, you can change security settings and totally disallow deleting operations. |
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