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  • May 2, 2012 at 1:29 am #2139008

    Wipe folders from a Hard Drive

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    by lovell_82 · about 10 years, 10 months ago

    Is there a program to completely delete a folder from a drive, and not have any recovery tools find it?

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    • May 2, 2012 at 1:29 am #2884747

      Clarifications

      by lovell_82 · about 10 years, 10 months ago

      In reply to Wipe folders from a Hard Drive

      Clarifications

    • May 2, 2012 at 5:40 am #2884738

      Look into…

      by cmiller5400 · about 10 years, 10 months ago

      In reply to Wipe folders from a Hard Drive

      Look into PGP, at one point they had a wipe feature exactly like that.

    • May 2, 2012 at 9:10 am #2884729

      Eraser

      by hextwo · about 10 years, 10 months ago

      In reply to Wipe folders from a Hard Drive

      I use Eraser from http://eraser.heidi.ie/
      It is fast and free.

    • May 2, 2012 at 2:20 pm #2884720

      File Shredder?

      by oh smeg · about 10 years, 10 months ago

      In reply to Wipe folders from a Hard Drive

      http://www.fileshredder .org/

      Remember to remove the space from between fileshredder and .org

      Col

    • May 3, 2012 at 12:24 pm #2884685

      CCleaner also has a wipe delete files

      by markp24 · about 10 years, 10 months ago

      In reply to Wipe folders from a Hard Drive

      hi

      i f i was you i would delete the files and recreate them with 0 bytes same with the folder,
      then delete them again and use any of the prior mention utilitues to wipe the free space, then i would defrag the drive, then creat the folder of the same name again, and fill it with file name,s

      then delete them again, use a DOD level wipe/fileshedder
      dump a bunch of files on there to fill up the free space (soem named the same as the folder/files)
      then delete them
      defrag again and

      do a wipe on the free space again.

      then test with some recovery utilites to see if i could get the files back. 🙂

      yes alot of work, so it may be cheaper and easier to clone the data to a new disk, and physically destroy that one . 🙂 lol im being silly)

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