Is Secure Delete supposed to be fast?

CCleaner for Windows
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Even with 7 passes, it seems CCleaner does its job fairly fast. Is it really doing a secure delete? It seems too fast :blink:

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I guess it entirely depends on how much is being deleted - and overwritte. I usually clean around 10 - 15 mb, and on the occasions when I use secure delete it takes 20 to 30 secs I should think.

There should be a noticeable time difference between deletion and secure deletion, and your disk active light should flash continuously. After secure deletion run Recuva with the Show Deleted files option, sort in time order, and you should see a lot of ZZZ files and no files with the current time/date with under their own name.

You only really need one pass with secure deletion.

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I just deleted 42MB in 17 secs. Like I said, very fast.

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I just deleted 42MB in 17 secs. Like I said, very fast.

Make sure you are using the latest version.Earlier versions were not secure deleting.

:) davey

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After secure deletion run Recuva with the Show Deleted files option, sort in time order, and you should see a lot of ZZZ files and no files with the current time/date with under their own name.

Have you had a look with Recuva?

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There were a lot of ZZZ files as you said so I guess its doing its job.