Posted on 04/09/2022 11:14:42 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
We
Will
Soon
Find
Out
Bet.
Sometimes when you recover a file, there is extra garbage at the end which isn’t part of the original file.
It doesn’t matter for most files because most programs ignore the extra stuff at the end.
But it does make it appear as though you’ve recovered more data than what you really have.
That I’m unsure of.
I’ve known who Maxey is and am aware of his appearances on Bannon’s show.
Maybe files compressed on the hd could get in that neighborhood but I don’t think pictures or pdfs will compress much. Access to cloud storage maybe but that would become theft hacking it. I’m not sure what to think but I think the repair guy is correct. I have heard whispering of a way to read hds even written over but do not know about it.
Well, the FBI ‘protected’ the laptop from public exposure prior to the election. Maybe they are now going to claim there were another 450 GB of FAKE ‘incriminating evidence’ framing President Trump for RUssia Russia Russia. They may not have been able to swap out the data because the initial content was already identified, so maybe the idiot swampies said, “Oh but we found another 450 GB...” at which point the repairman is saying, “Well you couldn’t because there was no room....”
Whatever happens in D.C., the objective is almost always “get Trump!!! anyway we can!!!!”
Yeah but aren’t document and photo files already compressed? That’s part of the features built in.
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I generally agree with you but, yeah there it is. I have a buddy that told me the government can access data on fragments of hd disc’s after being gov level software wiped and beat with a hammer. Very expensive and time consuming but better than “you could possibly imagine.” Said buddy is someone who would know. It came up in discussion a few years ago after some terrorist blew himself up to evade capture in Iraq. During DJT’s term. I don’t know how good of an image they have of the good hd. Did it include files not in the directory?
Hmmm. I just looked at my hard drive properties which says I’ve used 116 GB and have 570 GB free, for a total of 687 GB (apparently some rounding). I bought my laptop in 2013.
But Hunter only had a 500 GB drive?
Maybe not. I had an HP Windows 7 machine. When I gave it away as a hand-me-down, I wanted to re-initialize it. It turns out the disc was partitioned so that only about two-thirds of it was available. The other one-third was there, but not available to the OS. Apparently HP charged for an “upgrade” if you ordered one with a larger hard drive. The other one-third wasn’t used by the operating system or anything useful, they simply shipped them with knee-capped hard drives, and it isn’t particularly difficult to access the other one third if you know about it.
My laptop has 4Tb...
Like I posted above.. it IS possible. My laptop has 4Tb (uncompressed).
Perhaps Jack Maxey means that he recovered another 150 gig bringing it up to 450 gig?
Repairman is wrong. Good physical analysis of a hard drive can recover files that have been overwritten, resulting in more total data than the HD size. There’s a reason secure deletion programs run 7 or 20 or more write passes over the entire disk to actually get rid of old data
“...has been overwritten by new data, then the original file is unrecoverable.”
Not really. Depends on the number of overwrites.
Not really. Depends on the number of overwrites.
Did you read the very next sentence I wrote?
There are super-high end methods to theoretically reveal "layers" of hard drive use which is why a "military grade" hard drive deletion overwrites the entire drive several times with random data.
The computer repairman’s last name is MacIsaac, not Isaac.
Any gigabytes of text or jpg files is a considerable amount of data. High resolution video can use a few gigabytes an hour. One gigabyte of email can be thousands. So, assuming 450 gigs of data (current and deleted combined) would take a long time to peruse. Dribs and drabs will probably be showing up for a long time.
If my memory serves me correctly, Tesla took a similar approach with battery capacity when a majority of their business was leasing cars. When a hurricane hit Florida some years ago, Tesla provided extended range through a software update.
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