Wipe Free Space first creates a huge amount of data (files of nothing but 0s) and then deletes it. It takes a very long time and if you end task you will need to run WFS again to delete the file created.
Do this then NEVER run WFS again, until you sell the harddrive
I've been trying out Wipe Free Space this afternoon on two internal drives, one of them partitioned, and the three partitions of my external USB hard drive.
Six drives all ran individually.
I had a windows explorer window open on each drive as I tried this, and in each case one weirdly numbered file appeared (0bytes), and that immediately disappeared when I selected "Cancel". And the original size of "Free Space" was the same as before I started the process. The "file" was automatically deleted.
That's exactly as it should happen with WFS, so there shouldn't be any need to find a file to delete, or to run it again.
Just for information guys, as I was curious myself as to what exactly happened if WFS was cancelled.
EDIT: Windowes XP SP3 by the way, and WFS ran on its own.
I've been trying out Wipe Free Space this afternoon on two internal drives, one of them partitioned, and the three partitions of my external USB hard drive.
Six drives all ran individually.
Just for information guys, as I was curious myself as to what exactly happened if WFS was cancelled.