getridofit Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 I have run CCleaner several times on my Win XP Hewlett Packard desktop. I wanted to make sure deleted files were truly gone, so I ran Recuva. LOTS of files were restored to a plugin hard drive. Why? How do I make sure that deleted files are gone? Can I delete them from the plugin hard drive (using CCleaner) and they'll be gone forever, or are they still on the C drive of my desktop? Thanks for any help in understanding how to use these 2 programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisw Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Recuva is just doing what it's supposed to do...recover deleted files. To truly delete them, you need a file shredder program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aethec Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 If you use a secure file deletion (you can choose that in CCleaner's settings), it shouldn't be able to restore anything. Or only file names. Piriform French translator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted June 14, 2010 Moderators Share Posted June 14, 2010 Just to expand on Aethec's advice, have a read of the CCleaner docs on Secure Deletion, and I would suggest choosing a "Simple Overwrite", which is sufficient. http://docs.piriform.com/ccleaner/ccleaner-settings/changing-ccleaner-settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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