From: Barry Schwarz on
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:43:01 -0700, Brian V
<BrianV(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>My question is: If stuff is erased or formatted, etc - Where does it go? I
>thought a drive only can hold so much information. Wouldn't it eventually run
>out of space?

There is no stuff, only a pattern of bits used to represent stuff.
When the pattern changes, so does the stuff. When all the bits are
zero, the previous pattern which represented stuff is no longer
discernible.

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