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Active Data is information residing on the direct access storage media (disc drives or servers) of computer systems, which is readily visible to the operating system and/or application software with which it was created and immediately accessible to users without restoration or reconstruction.
Active data is information residing on the direct access storage media of computer systems, which is readily visible to the operating system and/or application software with which it was created and immediately accessible to users without restoration, modification ,or reconstruction (i.e., word processing and spreadsheet files, programs and files used by the computerâÂÂs operating system).
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