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How does a file get written over after it gets deleted?

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The computer allocates the space where the file used to be as free space. Next time the computer needs HDD space it may overwrite in that space.
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Both. Any time you save anything to your hardrive it can overwrite the space on your hardrive that the file you deleted was taking up.
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the space it was written on is no longer recognize as occupied and the computer uses the space to write new information
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