Shredding verses formating id the question.unless one is a rocked cine test then perhaps you may want to do this.but for a normal user like us all well could be risky?
Wipe free space ccleaner install#
Only it stuffed the drive(my own Fault) generally, a good old format 2 times to be sure is plenty,and the install ,then default the,drive to be able to use it.EMPTY. Ive done the wipe free space once before and didnt lose any data. So no one can see what youve had on your HD. But now I find out it is used to clear off an external that you wish to dispose of or sell. My mistake was thinking Wipe Free Space was cleaning up things to make 'space'. I remember a long time ago did it once,never again, I cant remember what went wrong I wish I had read these forums before using Ccleaner. If like our poster insists doing So may I also add Please be careful follow the advice already posted.
The only time I would consider it IF, I sold a system hard drive or PC. I am not a fan of shredding.but have a friend who says its a must.
Remember to choose the disk in question carefully - one at a time.ĪND as Melvin says: DON'T INTERFERE with the proces and HOPE that you won't suffer a powerloss during the empty space shredding operation. What is the size of your disk and the amount of free space? You can even do it yourself through a command in command prompt by filling up your computer with zeroes and then deleting the file - as many times as you wish.Īnother method could be to just install large files until the computer is filled up - and then delete them.īUT unless you have a specific purpose to do it right now I would just run a chkdsk /r and a defragmentation regulary and be sure to use the shredder on all files you wish to remove all traces of.Īfter a while most of your empty space will have been overwritten several times quite UncmlakeleWilley So it depends to a very large extent on the amount of free space and which overwrite method you choose. Yes the possibility can be found in Ccleaner, - then depending on the amount of free space and the number of overwrites it will take between a couple of hours and a whole day or more.Ĭcleaner has 4 possibilities: 1 overwrite, 3 overwrites DOD (Department of Defense), NSA 7 overwrites and the Gutman overwrite 35 times.
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