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Clean Hard Drive of erased files

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duane123

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Jan 1, 2004
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Does anyone know of a hard drive cleaner that I can run and make sure all of the hard drive's erased files are indeed gone and cannot be resurected? I do not want to wipe the entire drive, desiring to leave op sys and the remaining applications. Prefer trial or free download if available.
 
Trial R-Wipe and Clean ... it worth buying.


``The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.''
TIMTOWTDI
 
Is this for personal reasons or predicated by internal rules like for government or?

There are/can be particular protocols concerning this depending on who/why you are trying to do this.

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all
 
Personal use only. One of my employees can use this old machine, but I don't want for any of the erased files/folders to be un-erased.
 
Sounds like you'll be safe enough downloading the drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility and running the zero fill option.
 
I've found DBAN pretty useful in the past. Available in floppy disk and CD flavours.

HTH

TazUk

[pc] Blue-screening PCs since 1998
 
I do not want to wipe the entire drive

OOoops - nice catch rvnguy - I missed that completely.

Avoid DBAN then !!



TazUk

[pc] Blue-screening PCs since 1998
 
Hello,

When you find a tool to erase data you can then wish to verify it is really erased. Speaking about me, when I came across unknown erase soft I then use data recovery tool to see if something can be restored. A really powerful one is best to use. Such a tool is Undelete, it really can restore lots of data, and was able to restore data the one erasing tool claimed to erase completely.

 
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