In the search screen, such as "videos" appear, the files that are no longer retrievable, and have been overwritten. You can still see these files stood on the computer. Is it possible that they are no more insightful. I'm going to sell the computer and do not want anybody seeing what I've seen.
If you're running a normal scan then you are probably looking at filename entries in the MFT. You can overwrite these filenames by running CCleaner Wipe Free Space with Wipe MFT enabled. Some users do this and then cancel the job after the MFT has been overwritten, if they don't want to run the full WFS. However as you're selling the pc you may as well let the job run to completion.
Hi,
Thanks voor the answer. I do not undestand what you mean with "MFT"
I'm sorry, i live in the Netherlands and do not write and understand English that well. :-)
Your English is fine, Wim. MFT means Master File Table, where all file information (name, size, clusters allocated, dates, etc) is kept. Although the file data may have been overwritten, this information remains in the MFT until it is overwritten by a new file allocation.
Running CCleaner Wipe MFT will create enough new files to overwrite all this information in the MFT. These files will then be deleted and no details of the old files will remain.
Ok thanks again.
I hope this is on topic here. I just downloaded Recuva (free version) hoping to find some .jpg files that mysteriously disappeared when I recently moved my computer to a new residence. I did the deep scan and while it did not find the ones I wanted it did find over 5,000 other files I neither need nor want. I assume they are sitting somewhere on my hard disk just taking up space and I would like to permanently delete them to recover that space. I don't see any way to DELETE them. Can someone advise please? Thanks, Jim
Those files you found in Recuva's deep scan should be previously deleted files, they're not taking up any space if that's the case.