Greetings All,
I've used CCleaner for several years now but never used the "wipe free space" function. I have 4 internal HD's that I have been moving, deleting, copying files from and I'm about to use this function to clean up the drives. I have a few concerns which I hope someone can address.
1. Any clue for time factor? Each drives free space is 119GB, 23GB, 29GB, 58GB 217GB, 73GB. *Note* Main drive has 3 partitions. I plan to start with the smaller drive but thought there might be a calculation for how much can be cleaned for each GB. (Exp. 1GB is roughly 20min, 2GB is 40min ect.)
2. I've burnt several files to DVD's using the same folder over and over (Was my Temp Encryption location until burnt to dvd). After reading though Ccleaners limits it seams as if this location was used after deleting a file and replacing it with another file and deleting it that the wipe function will not clean that sectors clusters. Is that correct?
From the rules section
"Wipe Free Disk Space limitations
CCleaner can't wipe every deleted file from your free disk space. There are some limitations, because of the way Windows stores some files. Here are some examples:
The file has been overwritten by another file (so no need to overwrite this again)
The file had been overwritten by another file before you ran CCleaner, but the second file has now been deleted as well.
The file was created almost exactly when you ran CCleaner."
If true and the wipe function won't clean that directory how do I remove the data so it's unrecoverable?. (Company stuff that's already back up on DVD but needs removed from Hard Drive. The directory will be empty when complete and can be deleted.
3. My Encryption container file is located and hidden on the drive. This way windows see's no container files on the drive. Will the "wipe" function see this space and leave the encrypted container intact (not wipe it)?
Thanks for any input gents!
OS Windows 7 SP1
Drivecrypt 5.6.3
Ccleaner 5.17
NTFS file system
I'll be using Recuva to see what was missed.