hdd question

WinFLP · Jul 11, 2010

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Phazor · Jul 11, 2010

WinFLP said: ↑

Eraser is a great tool to scrub data from an active partition. However if you missed deleting an incriminating file somewhere (a log file or whatnot), it won't help.
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Thats what the 'Erase Unused Space' option is for.

From the Help, Section 'How to... / Erasing All Data on Drive':

First, to overwrite completely all data on a drive, it may be required to install the drive on another system because the operating system files cannot be accessed while it is running (this is not of course needed if the operating system if not installed on the drive).

To start clearing the drive, the first thing to do is to delete all files (no overwriting at this point). After deleting the files, it is time to overwrite the unused disk space. The default method for erasing unused disk space is one pass of pseudorandom data, but you may want to change this to increase security - be aware that overwriting unused space on a large drive using multiple overwriting passes may take several hours.

After all data on the drive is overwritten, you should finally use the standard format to clear possible data remaining on the file system table.
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The option can be called via Context Menu by rightclicking a drive letter.

Details see screenshot.

xiaohanshz · Jul 13, 2010

I think they tracked you by your IP address,if they checked your HDD ,that was illegal too.

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