(Jan 22, 2014 03:24 PM)Goodies Wrote: Note that often times, when data is deleted, it's not actually "deleted". Just able to be written over by other files.
HDD analysis will show that many of your files can be retreived... I would mount the filesystem and "dd" it to another drive for further analysis. You can boot the resulting .img or .iso file in Virtualbox and have a mirrored copy of the origial drive. I would recommend saving/compressing one as backup... There are dozens of open source analysis tools for forensics in both windows and linux :)
As Goodies said, it becomes part of thr 'unallocated' space. DD is a great way of doing it however rather than boot the image, i'd personally open it with forensic software. Depends what the context is for the OP I guess.