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"WangoTango" wrote in message
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"WangoTango" wrote in message
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Is there a "wipedisk" product that will only wipe "erased" files?

I only want to "wipe" old tax data and old medical records from this
PC.

...Jim Thompson

I know of several that allow you to toss files into a "shredder" that
does a wipe of the file during deletion, but I don't know of any that
will purge old data. Maybe undelete them and then shred them?

Ah, found one that says it will go over unused disk space and wipe it
too, and it is free.

http://www.fileshredder.org/

Doesn't defrag have a clear unused space option? - the space occupied by
an
erased file being marked as unused should then be cleared.

Another option is create a short term folder and fill it up with any old
CDs/DVDs found laying about until the remaining capacity is filled, then
delete the short term folder.

That way any attempt to recover deleted files only gets a bunch of old
DVDs.

If that option is there, I have never noticed it.
Anyway, I have used Diskeeper automatic defrag for years, it uses free
system time to defrag in the back ground continuously. I'm sure that
makes a mess of any left over file data over time, but I wouldn't bet
the house on it.
The filling up unused space with data is pretty much what fileshredder
is doing to the disk when it scrubs the disk. From what I read, it just
fills up all the unused disk space with random data. You accomplish the
same thing without spending hours ripping DVDs.

What bugs me is what do to with a new drive that fails under warranty.
If you send it in for repair, you are sending your data off to some
anonymous guy in a repair center. The only really secure option is to
bite the bullet and physically destroy a new drive. If you don't think
that happens all that often, just google "Seagate 1TB drive failures".
I have two high end work stations running 4TB striped/mirrored RAID
arrays, and 2 new backup blank drives for swapping. Of those 12 1TB
drives 10 of them died within 3 months. What do you do? Send off
chunks of confidential customer and in house information to the repair
center or destroy the drive?

Jim

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