Shredder

[Bughead]

Hii everybody..I use Archicrypt to shredder free Space on my harddrive.
Just now it happend that I shredder all my free space with US dot ...3 times.

After starting Undelete, it found over 7000 files in very good state ..to recover.
And I found untouched deleted files still hanging there after hours of cleaning!

Now I look for something more reliable software. I found some different free shredders on softwaregeek, maybe somebody notice a shredder on the list, which offers quick and true wiping.
Also it should wipe the location of the file. No D: no C: no appdata..something..WIIIPE. :rtfm::assassin::skull:

http://www.softwaregeek.com/archicrypt-shredder/freeware/p1.html

 

[jamescv7]

Eraser or the built in feature of Hard Drive free space cleaner on CCleaner (Crap Cleaner)

 

[Ink]

SDelete (SysInternals), although it's only a command utility.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb897443.aspx

Plus it does have other uses, see here.

 

[Ink]

This might be useful to you (and others), Post #4 and Post #15, as well the rest of the topic.

 

[McLovin]

SDelete (SysInternals), although it's only a command utility.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb897443.aspx

Plus it does have other uses, see here.

That is what I currently have with the inbuilt feature in Trend. If I remember there was a guide I saw here or that link you have there on how to set it up.

 

[Bughead]

This might be useful to you (and others), Post #4 and Post #15, as well the rest of the topic.

Hello Earth..shure very helpful, both posts.
I'm a member of sevenforums too, but I couldn't find the posts there (wrong search of course) Lovely..

Back to EARTH: I cleaned up my message ..it was to messy
and I downloade eraser...didn't work at all..short story done.

And I made my freespace cleaning bat with Sdelete.

this is my bat 15 passes:

my bat in action: (sry I love to show it) :lolz:

first I did it only with "C:" to see if it works and how, after It was done ,I changed my bat to 2 partions and it worked as a charme.
for about 414 GB it took me 24 h..with 15 passes not bad. (I hope the future tools are getting faster..needet when cleaning bigger harddrives)

I still had over 7000 undelete files.. but most could not open, like exe and html, shure not. I Undeleted 9 gig of shreddert files (these where only a few,forgot to look how many exactly)

BUT many other files like xml and txt gifs jpgs etc...I could still open!!! after 15 passes with sdelete and 3 passes before with achicrypt.

AND on top some txt files haven't been touched at all!!!! FULL TEXT READABLE :shok:

So I was thinking maybe i should not zero it -z just -c than it wouldn't bypass clusters already considered as done.
Anyway the untouched files are a miracle to me, as I also made 1st secure delete with sdelete to those files.

AND another thing was obvious, that with 15, say 18 passes, files are only got fully overwritten in the second half.
The first half was mixed with normal text and codes.

Until now, even though I like sdelete's speed and simplicity, I find ALL freespace-cleaner a failure in speed and job uitkomst, compaire to there great stories.

It's not that I shredder to hide something, (even though I have to hide a lot :angel: ) But for an recent backup I don't want to carry all the garbage over to the next level..I want my PC CLEAN ..whenever I clean.
And 18 passes should do much better.

But Hey you guys are great and I love this forum special THX to EARTH arty:

B.T:W: I just found a little tutorial on YT for writing a bat file to Sdelete, for specific path, secure delete.
Maybe helpful for others too..little bits to the right direction :heart:
here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9956INqO2Ho