On 27 Nov 2006 03:30:38 -0800, "Jane Logan"
<janemarylogan@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>Will copies of emails sent out through outlook or outlook express sit
>in allocated disk space of your hard drive OR unallocated disk space?

Allocated space. Unallocated space is only holding data
that was previously allocated and then later deleted, or
never allocated at all.


>Is it possible for web based client emails to be found on allocated
>disk space of the hard drive?

Depends on how the client software is written. Yes it's
possible it could be a browser temporary file, thus
allocated space until manually or automatically deleted. It
will never be in unallocated disk space, nothing can use
unallocated disk space except perhaps some low level utility
software.


>What kind of information is stored on unallocated disk space ?


See above, it's files (from any and all causes) that were
previously allocated then deleted (by any app) but not
overwritten, or it's still free/empty/dataless space because
nothing had ever been written to the area on the drive.