varatovich Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 I regularly use Ccleaner and find it very good. I would like to try and wipe only the free space on my drive just to ensure no 'residues' are lying about. How confident can I be that nothing else will be erased during this process. I have used something similar in the past which was part of McAfee software and it worked OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aethec Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 You can be confident nothing else will be erased ; however, unless you have deleted very important files and do not want someone to be able to recover them, there's no point in wiping the free space. Piriform French translator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varatovich Posted October 29, 2010 Author Share Posted October 29, 2010 Thanks for your reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike23 Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 How thoroughly does CCleaner wipe your free space? I can't imagine it would be a thorough as something like DBAN(which I know whips your whole hard drive). I'm just curious how hard it would be for someone to recover information, if at all possible, after running the "wipe free space" feature in the program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kroozer Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 How thoroughly does CCleaner wipe your free space? The program overwrites everything with 00000000000000000000. I use a different program that overwrites with ????????????????. Both overwrites achieve obliteration. Not to worry. Recovery is impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike23 Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 The program overwrites everything with 00000000000000000000. I use a different program that overwrites with ????????????????. Both overwrites achieve obliteration. Not to worry. Recovery is impossible. Thanks again for the reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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