best software to prevent recovery of deleted files Archived From: Computers |
I'm changing employers and need to make sure personal data can't be recovered. what is the best program for this? thanks in advance...cheers
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i'm having difficulty downloading...a bit of a novice with this type of program 
Talk to your IT department. Your company does have an interest in making sure that you do not accidentally wipe valuable company data & also that the next owner of the machine is not able to see any of your sensitive info. While I use DBAN to successfully wipe a complete harddrive, I don't think you want to do that here.
Instead, use eraser:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/
noksagt said:Talk to your IT department. Your company does have an interest in making sure that you do not accidentally wipe valuable company data & also that the next owner of the machine is not able to see any of your sensitive info. While I use DBAN to successfully wipe a complete harddrive, I don't think you want to do that here.
Instead, use eraser:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/
so i like eraser, if you right click the recycle bin there is a button to easily clean it out. My issue is that i deleted the recycle bin so it gives me a message that the recycle bin is empty. i need to make sure that what i have deleted out of the recycle bin can't be recovered.
any ideas?
Any erase tool that is DOD compliant will be fine.
They find out what sectors the file is on that is to be deleted and then they do a 7 pass DoD compliant wipe procedure, basically writing new data over the old spots 7 times in various patterns such that the old data is totally unrecoverable.
Used one called Wipe or DiskWipe or ???Wipe at my last company.
Casper42 said:Any erase tool that is DOD compliant will be fine.
They find out what sectors the file is on that is to be deleted and then they do a 7 pass DoD compliant wipe procedure, basically writing new data over the old spots 7 times in various patterns such that the old data is totally unrecoverable.
Used one called Wipe or DiskWipe or ???Wipe at my last company.
will this work if the files have been deleted out of the recycle bin? I want to make sure files deleted out of my recycle bin can't be recovered. thanks in advance
Hopefully the files didnt have particularly suspicious titles or anything, because usually the record of the file existed but cannot be recovered if the sector has been rewritten multiple times.
Yes, what it basically does is checks to see if the sector is free, if so, WIPE IT.
Usually those programs will not wipe a file in the recycle bin, so make sure that is clear.
Also if your IT is on the ball and takes periodic backups of your data, well you are screwed.
trader1414 said:so i like eraser...My issue is that i deleted the recycle bin so it gives me a message that the recycle bin is empty. i need to make sure that what i have deleted out of the recycle bin can't be recovered.
any ideas?Use 'eraser' to wipe your free space.
a) back up needed files...low level format of the drive...reinstall OS and programs...put files back on
b) buy new hard drive...back up needed files...install new hard drive...reinstall OS and programs...put files back on...destroy old drive with 12-15 lbs. sledge hammer.
Easy, Time machine that comes with OS X Leopard.
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