Permanently erasing free space

Post by **DTS** » Sat May 12, 2007 4:52 pm

Permanently erasing free space

Is there a freeware program that can permanently erase all the free space on my hard drive? I deleted some stuff I don't want recoverable with file recovery software.

Something that writes 1s or 0s or something over the free space on the hard drive, you know, like Norton Wipeinfo.

Post by **Foo** » Sat May 12, 2007 4:54 pm

'Eraser51'

Double it up with a sweep using CCleaner, scandisk and then disk defragmentor and then do a 1 or 3-pass wipe on free space.

With Eraser you just right click on your C drive select 'wipe free space' and set it up to do its thing.

Post by **DTS** » Sat May 12, 2007 5:02 pm

All I can find for Eraser51 is a nickname of someone on some forums.

Post by **Foo** » Sat May 12, 2007 5:04 pm

hah sorry, 52

Post by **DTS** » Sat May 12, 2007 5:06 pm

I found 53 before you posted that, added 'software' to the search

Post by **DTS** » Sun May 13, 2007 12:11 am

Thanks, Foo.

I found the site for that Eraser program.
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
The number is actually the version number, without the decimal place. The current version is 5.6, I got that one.

Post by **ilumos** » Sun May 13, 2007 2:59 pm

eraser is a very good piece of software, lets you erase a particular file with just a right click.

Post by **DTS** » Sun May 13, 2007 3:22 pm

ilumos wrote:eraser is a very good piece of software, lets you erase a particular file with just a right click.

That's handy. Thanks for telling me that.