I have used many of the listed apps. The one I am mostly using now is from Moo0 File Shredder. A free tool, with multiple levels of shredding, from one-pass pseudo-random data (including cluster tip and ADS, and changes file name and attributes as part of delete process), up to the over-kill level.
The utilities on this page allow you to destructively wipe / delete / erase a file,a disk (floppy disks, hard disks, etc), or a partition. This is usually accomplishedby overwriting the existing data on the disk or file with either random numbers ora series of zeros and ones (or some such bit patterns). The tools are useful if youwant to make it difficult for people to recover deleted data from your disk. You could saythat these tools are the computer equivalent of an electronic or digital file shredder forfiles, hard disks, etc.
Incidentally, if you have the commercialTerabyte'sBootIt Collection, and you only want to securely wipe an entire partition or hard disk,you can already do that with that software. That is, you don't have to download another tool to do it.(For those who don't know what that program is, it is apartition manager,backup and imaging utilityand multi-boot manager,all rolled into one.) The advantage of usingBootItis that it lets you create a bootable USB drive (eg flash/thumb drive) that works out-of-the-box on modern UEFI systems,so that you don't have to jump through hoops to get the program to work.
Note that if you are concerned about the security of your data or simply wish to protect your privacy, you may also wantto look at the Free Data Encryption andOn the Fly Encryption page. Your data will be less easily recoverable if it is encrypted from the start.
Related PagesFree Secure Delete / Wipe Files / Wipe Disk / Destructive Delete
Comments are closed.
|
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |