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Mostly this topic has referred to various tools that run under Windows,Д«ut at least one referred to a DOS tool, and I am sure that Unix/Linux boot discs can also do powerful stuff ! ! Is there universal agreement or understanding of what Metadata is and does ?Дo any that are not wiped have the potential to carry 'private data' and leak when fragmented or upon next reboot ?ДЄre the answers to the above dependant upon the O.S.

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Never Used Free Space has never been touch. the only Free Space needed to overwrite is the Deleted Free Space. to securly overwrite deleted files.Д«ut Recuva won't touch MFT and Slack (Cluster Tips). making sure permanent files is Defragged. CCleaner Garbage Cleaner with 1 overwrite pass. I regulary use TeraByte Image for DOS for 'Ghosting'.ДЄnd most important for this forum.

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Software, to Wipe Free Space on a running Windows System Disk. :-)ДЇor now I'm happy with 5.7 but will check later verions. I have noticed that I tend to rely more and more on Eraser as a shredder. in this context I'm more interested in ad hoc file wiping not something done as part of a wider-scoped and periodic 'cclean' for which I will still use a ccleaner 3-pass. I'll be the first to post if my partition disappearsДЄlso note I'm not knocking ccleaner here either. this includes a comparison with the PGP shredder. Just as a result of a couple of recent threads on these forums I've done quite a bit of messing around with deletion / recovery and I still find Eraser to be the most performant and the best at it what it does. I can say that I will continue to confidently use context menu 5.8.7 for secure file deletion. (probably) using Context Menu File Shredder in Eraser 5.7 (or later?).ДЇWIW I've never had a problem with Eraser, and at some point I've probably done a system partition free space wipe, though I've no idea at what version.

With a new fresh disk I will from now on be more observant when I delete sensitive information.

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the disk is now clean from 'garbage' and I am in full control of the disk.Д«ut before I did all this I wanted to test the Wipe Free Space function in Eraser 5.7. Then partioned, formatted and restored the information from my backup disk.Д®asy enough. I wiped my harddrive using TeraBytes CopyWipe (Random Pattern). Take care of slack (cluster tips) and the MFT. I like Piriforms products but in this case they dont do enough for me.

I'm just looking for a stable product that does what it's supposed to without any surprises. There are several methods if you want to be s(ec)ure, degausser, catepillar, sledge hammer. the formula could be worth a couple of bucks. I don't even like Coca Cola.but then again. But we will probably never know the full story why this happened. At some point the man seems to have ended up with a messed up harddrive, 'I say we take off and nuke the whole HD from orbit - it's the only way to be sure' I can't find that in the documentation - have you a reference to that please? Also interesting that the other product does (apparently) erase file names on a free-space wipe - wonder why ccleaner (apparently) doesn't?Д®dited to add: Augeas I've just read here that you think 'wipe free space' doesn't perform multiple passes. I would expect a 3-pass (or logically, a one-pass, but I'm the nervy type) to leave file content unrecoverable by any software. I would like to see the devs' comments too. the causual user would say 'huh, this only does a 3 pass erase' If the OP is correct, why not get ccleaner to wipe 3 times properly, rather than 35 times 'not very well'? Probably wouldn't help the sales pitch. So when something like ccleaner offers a 35-pass Gutmann (or as Augeas said t'other day 'My post count would be halved if Gutmann had kept his mouth shut.') then I would certainly not expect to be able to retrieve the file content!

Even with electromagnetic scanning tools what might be recovered is still moot. I would call that to all intents and purposes 'forensically clean'.

I'm betting (it's not mentioned explicitly) that when the OP ran Eraser (and Encase found the drive wiped clean) it was also done with just a 3-pass. I can't comment on the accuracy of the OP's findings, but if any product offers 'secure deletion' as ccleaner does, then it should do what it claims to do. Wiping is all that it does and it does it very well.