I'm waiting for Alan B to chip in ![:lol:]()
(Kidding Alan)
Happy to join the party and bring a present with me.
Question - What Free Space - Where is it / was it - is that all ?
Within a Partition the may be files and everything else is Free space that may hold deleted and recoverable files.
Outside of the partitions no files can be accessed normally,
but there may be recoverable files still held as a result of previous Partitions that occupied that space.
Under Tools / Drive Wiper there is a Wipe Option that selects either Entire Drive or Free Space.
It is not immediately apparent to me what this Free space is, i.e.
a) Sectors inside a partition that hold either no data or remnants of deleted files; or
Sectors outside of all partitions; or
c) both (a) and (
.
I also do not understand what happens if I choose Entire Drive,
i.e. will it erase the Partitions designated by check marks under "Drives",
or will it try to erase the entire Hard Drive ?
It would be far better to NOT refer to Drives if Partitions are the target.
I would be far more comfortable if I knew that only designated partitions were being zapped;
but I would also like to know if confidential files held in deleted partitions could be removed,
or whether I need a Boot and Nuke CD.
I am not desperate to eliminate anything so I have not researched the FAQ's,
but I fear that some CC users will not know of the FAQ's and assume that CC will do what they hope.
I always assume the worst possible outcome - surprising how fears are self full-fulling ! !
Regards
Alan