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i have heard that there are utilties in the market that can even restore files form a damaged hard drive or even a formated hard drive. I would like to have a very secure file destroying and also while formating the hard drive how can i fomrat the hard drive that the hard drive is like a new hard drive which is from the factory as i knw there is always some static in the hard drive which contains the past information. how can i eliminate this kindly help and specificaly i use the window based systems all window based system.

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by jschein

Even the comercial "permanent file deletion software" can be recovered.

Only for sure fire way of fully destroying the data is a low level format. A LLF executable can be found at the hard drive manufacturer website or searching on the web through sites such as google.

The LLF program is free.

by admin

althought lets say if i over write the whole hard drive with some other data b4 formating the hard drive then format and fdisk the hard drive and i reshearched that does evidance eliminator destroy the data??

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and wht if i use a file shredder software would it ever be able to rebuild the files that would even if recovered.

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