[Wipe Free Space feature = Darik's Boot and Nuke?]

Wipe Free Space only does one secure pass to my knowledge. And yes using Wipe Free Space will remove the need to reinstall everything from scratch like what you've been doing with DBAN. But do note that Wipe Free Space may or will not be able to deal with files locked by the MFT. You can test its success using another Piriform freeware Recuva.

 

Should Wipe Free Space not work in the same vein as DBAN, is there a program out there that will?

 

I downloaded Eraser to see. I am running an unused space wipe of my C: drive with the Gutmann method as we speak. Is this what I've been looking for?

 

You may think that once a year is a bit much to be whining but on New Year's day this year I was told I had used all of the installations that my Microsoft Office disc could allow lol. Obviously if I buy another one I want to keep it until a new version of Office comes out.

 

So will Eraser do what I need it to do?

[Wipe Free Space feature = Darik's Boot and Nuke?]

I love CCleaner, been using it for years. I always hated the fact that I couldn't clean the rest of my HDD with it though. Old Word documents, Excel documents, anything I deleted in my recycle bin by mistake before running CCleaner made me sad

 

And today I update my version of the program and find a Wipe Free Space option?

 

To deal with my aforementioned sadness, I began running Darik's Boot and Nuke once every year to delete the entire hard drive. I was also using this program when selling old hard drives (35 pass gutmann, usually two rounds of it...took close to a week).

 

To my question: does this new feature mean that I can keep my windows installation, but overwrite every inch of my hard drive that is not being used? Up to 35 times with the gutmann method?

 

Do I never have to re-install windows/office/millions of programs again?!

 

Somebody pinch me. Please.

 

I understand that this feature could take a long time to run, but I am very excited. Some clarification would be great...