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Basically, can anyone recommend one, because the McAfee one is the only one I've heard of. I'm not wanting it for the sake of securing my data or securely deleting sensitive information, although I'll probably use it for that too. What I actually want it for is that if you delete files normally through Windows and empty the recycle bin, you don't actually get much disk space back, because the data is actually still there - Windows just "forgets" that it is there and writes over it the next time it needs to use up more disk space. And I'm running out of disk space, so I need to get rid of a this stuff which is still on the drive, but not accessible because it's been "deleted".
Any suggestions please?
Edit: Must be free!
Ta very much!
Basically, can anyone recommend one, because the McAfee one is the only one I've heard of. I'm not wanting it for the sake of securing my data or securely deleting sensitive information, although I'll probably use it for that too. What I actually want it for is that if you delete files normally through Windows and empty the recycle bin, you don't actually get much disk space back, because the data is actually still there - Windows just "forgets" that it is there and writes over it the next time it needs to use up more disk space. And I'm running out of disk space, so I need to get rid of a this stuff which is still on the drive, but not accessible because it's been "deleted".
Any suggestions please?
Edit: Must be free!
Ta very much!
However you might have a look at something like advanced windows care which will clean up windows' temporary folders/files. It doesnt permanently remove data though as you seem to want.
When a file is deleted normally all that happens is that the record in the file system is flagged as free. Its the quickest method and it gives you ALL the space back. Its not physically removed though, but it will eventually get overwritten. This is why you can recover deleted files. Presumably what Rogue Traders/Real Hustle highlighted is the fact that unscrupulous people might decide to go looking for recently deleted files with sensitive information.
> I think that if you simply defragment after deleting things then
> it has the same affect as secure deletion anyway...
Not really, at least it offers no guarantees. You -might- erase some of the data but it'll depend upon the amount of free space, how fragmented your drive is etc..