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!Lost&Found is the system's way of organizing data that has technically been deleted.

 

!Lost&Found isn't a real foler or even a real file. It is hidden in pretty much every view within windows. Even with hidden files configured to show, it will still be hidden.

When you delete a file or multiple files the record of it's location is removed from the drive index, but the data is still there. This allows windows to simply ignore the data with no index record and write over it as necessary.  If windows did a full delete every time by writing zeros over the data, deletes would take a long time, a very long time.

 

 

What you're seeing is basically 5gb  of data that you could potentially recover with software, however as you continue to use your system this 'folder' will gradually

change in size.  sometimes it will be bigger, sometimes it will be smaller.  You will never be able to do anything with it because simply put, you don't need to, the information in it has no record on the index so windows will just bulldoze over it when it needs to.

 

Everyone has this item on their computer in every single PC operating system. It has a different name on each OS but it's always there.  You actually have that hard drive space, you don't have 5gb of space being taken up by that 'file'  because it's not a file. It's a place-holder so windows knows 'here's 5gb of information that neckoblack doens't want anymore, so it can be freely overwritten'

 

All of the files and folders represented in there, are items you chose to delete already.  

 

You do not need to deal with this issue, as there is no issue to deal with. It is a normal process and can safely be ignored.

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I have Active@killDisk , a programe that wipes clean Disks. In the OS C Drive, there a file that's named

!Lost & Found! that is 5GBs big. I have no idea what it is nor do I know how to get rib of the content. All that there is in there are files with numbers for names that don't correspond to anything. There not system files and I don't know how they got there. Anyone have a clue on what these files are?

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No, but I'd just delete it

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I Don't know how. I cant even find the folder outside the Program that is telling me they exist and the programe doesn't give me the option to delete them.

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I Don't know how. I cant even find the folder outside the Program that is telling me they exist and the programe doesn't give me the option to delete them.

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Give me a sec

the guys over at bleepingcomputer.com are amazing when it comes to software, would highly suggest you go there if you didn't get the help you needed here.

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!Lost&Found is the system's way of organizing data that has technically been deleted.

 

!Lost&Found isn't a real foler or even a real file. It is hidden in pretty much every view within windows. Even with hidden files configured to show, it will still be hidden.

When you delete a file or multiple files the record of it's location is removed from the drive index, but the data is still there. This allows windows to simply ignore the data with no index record and write over it as necessary.  If windows did a full delete every time by writing zeros over the data, deletes would take a long time, a very long time.

 

 

What you're seeing is basically 5gb  of data that you could potentially recover with software, however as you continue to use your system this 'folder' will gradually

change in size.  sometimes it will be bigger, sometimes it will be smaller.  You will never be able to do anything with it because simply put, you don't need to, the information in it has no record on the index so windows will just bulldoze over it when it needs to.

 

Everyone has this item on their computer in every single PC operating system. It has a different name on each OS but it's always there.  You actually have that hard drive space, you don't have 5gb of space being taken up by that 'file'  because it's not a file. It's a place-holder so windows knows 'here's 5gb of information that neckoblack doens't want anymore, so it can be freely overwritten'

 

All of the files and folders represented in there, are items you chose to delete already.  

 

You do not need to deal with this issue, as there is no issue to deal with. It is a normal process and can safely be ignored.

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