A Scheme of Traceless File Deletion for Windows FAT32 File System
Shujiang Xu, Fengkai Liu, Lingyun Meng, Lianhai Wang, Xu Chang, Weijun Yang · 2021
FAT32 file system is a common file system, especially in the USB devices, with good stability and compatibility. When the FAT file system, as an important carrier of data storage, is attacked, data in the file system can be easily stolen by an adversary. Even the deleted file data can be recovered using data recovery technology that is one of the hot topics of computer forensics. A scheme of traceless data deletion for Windows FAT32 file system is presented in this paper to delete a file completely. Experimental results show that the deleted files cannot recover and the deletion operation leaves no trace.