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Without extraordinary measures, they are not deleted. Windows removed the index for a file, not the file itself. The data remains on the hard drive.

To some extent, this is true in most other operating systems as well.

You can get special programs which not only delete files but overwrite them with nonsense data. In some cases, they will even do this multiple times, making it next to impossible for even the most sophisticated tools to recover the deleted file.

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