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Is it possible to permanently erase files from my computer without wiping my hard drive?
I’d similar to to clean aged files from my tough expostulate so which they can’t be recovered, though we do not wish to clean my tough expostulate since we do not have the Windows designation discs anymore. Is there the approach to henceforth erase “deleted” files but removing absolved of everything?
I’ve read somewhere that “Norton Security has a nifty tool which you can use to permanently delete documents and files.” I haven’t tried it but it may work out for you
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The easiest way to permanent erasing files, is by overwriting the them.
When you delete a file, the header of the file is removed but the contents of the files still remains there. It will be considered as free space by the computer as the file has no header(start codes).
A recovery software searches hard drive for these file fragments. These softwares repair the file by giving the file fragments proper headers
Now if you fill hard drive other stuff and the if the old fragments are overwritten by the new files, (mostly likely)the old files cannot be recovered.
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LikeDislikeThere is a Free program called Eraser that can do the job:
Once downloaded and installed go to My Computer, right click on your Hard drive and chose the option to ‘Erase unused space’. You might want to use a program like CCleaner to give your system a good clearing out at first.
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