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Matth · 13-10-2006, 23:59

Much safer to fully erase, reformat, patch up & reinstall, also your friend would get a much cleaner and greener system.

In-situ cleanup is hard to do well, to do it properly, the cleanup tool needs to have a function to wipe free space, slack space as well as any unwanted files.

BCWIPE ticks all the boxes, maybe the evaluation would do unless it is restricted other than by time.

Eraser (free/donation) can clear free space, but didn't notice any mention of slack/swap.

The risk from slack, is that cluster end space MAY have leftover data from previous content. The risk from swap, is that swap file space MAY contain previous data, either written as swap, or allocation containing data from previously deleted files.

13-10-2006, 23:59	#10
Matth Inactive Join Date: Mar 2004 Services: BB:M, TV:XL, Phone:M, Loyalty Posts: 2,516	Re: looking for a free disk wipe program Much safer to fully erase, reformat, patch up & reinstall, also your friend would get a much cleaner and greener system. In-situ cleanup is hard to do well, to do it properly, the cleanup tool needs to have a function to wipe free space, slack space as well as any unwanted files. BCWIPE ticks all the boxes, maybe the evaluation would do unless it is restricted other than by time. Eraser (free/donation) can clear free space, but didn't notice any mention of slack/swap. The risk from slack, is that cluster end space MAY have leftover data from previous content. The risk from swap, is that swap file space MAY contain previous data, either written as swap, or allocation containing data from previously deleted files.