Definition: Data Destruction


Removal/destruction of information stored on a storage medium.




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Invalid files

Artificial files, incorrectly created by automatic recovery utilities like Chkdsk, Scandisk, Vrepair, Norton Disk Doctor, and many others. The content of such files do not normally have any value. This is because it may contain only a fragment of the data of the original file, or it may contain fragments of several files.

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