I was wondering what the Simple Overwrite whats for. Its set for (1 Pass ) now. What would happen if I changed it to ( 3 Passes ) or to ( 7 Passes )?
For whoever isnt to busy and if you wouldn't mind could you please email me what that means and if it would be okay to change those settings? I may forget to come back her or that I wanted to change these settings... If it will do even better then what its doing now to change them then I don't wont to forget about it.. Thank you
If it's set to 1 pass, file will be overwritten only 1 time. With 3 passes 3 times and so on... More passes means more security (it's harder/impossible to recover file), but it also means more time with overwrite process. I think 3 passes is just fine.
If you have nothing on your PC that you want to hide from others then set the delete option to Normal File deletion. This is very fast. The deleted files will sooner or later be overwritten anyway as you create new files.
If you have files you want to be securely deleted then set the delete option to Simple Overwrite 1 Pass. This overwrites your files with zeros, and is a little slower.
There is no point in overwriting files multiple times, it just prolongs the action and ever-so-slightly dimishes the life of your hard drive. No file has ever been recovered in the history of computing, as far as I and zillions of others know, after being overwritten.
I'm afraid that if you want an answer to your question then you will have to come back here: it's not too much to ask, is it?
Rgds.