Erase just the free space on my hard drive
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Mar 15, 202627922 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I'm about to give away an older computer with just the Windows XP operating system intact and all other programs uninstalled. However, upon peeking at the "free space" with software called "Recuva", I notice lots of deleted things that could be recoverable. Some of these include sensitive data file…
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Fix for: Erase just the free space on my hard drive
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Sysinternals SDelete. All it does is generate a free-spaced sized file full of junk (or zeros, depending on settings). It gets most all of the free space (I imagine it must miss a few blocks), and it's free. If you put it into the mode where it just…
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