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Viewing documents on a CD

5 years ago

If I have documents on a CD, make changes and save them, can they be viewed/retrieved by a computer repair person? They were not saved (I hope) on my hard drive. I allowed him to remotely take over my computer after he brought it back from retrieving all my contents that vanished unexpectly. I now want to update my CDs but don't know if he still has access.

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User
5 years ago
This is a link to computer forensics website that should give you the answer to your questions.

http://www.computerpi.com/resources/computer-forensics-definitions/
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Steve J
5 years ago
We'd need to know more information.

Before we go any further, you should know something about storing data on cd/cdr/dvd's:

-Don't do it. You shouldn't keep ANY data on them (unless it's a backup of a backup that you keep in a remote location in case of disaster recovery). Optical media is notorious for going bad.

-Fewer computers come with optical drives anymore so the longer you wait, the less change you yourself, or someone else will be able to access anything from them withing having to buy additional hardware to do so.

if your cd's are cdr's (re-writable), then your data could be saved to them just like on your hard drive. if they're not re-writable, then anything you modify and save would have to be saved to another form a storage, likely your hard drive. You can't save further data to a cd unless of course you never finalized it which is an even worse idea than saving data to a cd in the first place.
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