Easy Way Of Deleting Files Permanently From Hard Disk In Windows..!

Files that are deleted in Windows are not really deleted–just the links to where the files are located on your hard drive are removed. Despite allowing you to use the space for other files again, the actual information is still lurking on your disk space. In other words, a knowledgeable computer user would be able to locate enough information to restore a file you wanted to keep private. Luckily, the ever-useful program CCleaner provides a method to permanently remove any deleted data from your hard drive.

To download CCleaner click here.

Then follow these steps after the program gets installed

• From the main CCleaner window, click on the “Tools” icon to the left
• Select “Drive Wiper” from the list that appears in the new pane.
• In this pane, select “Free Space Only” from the first drop-down box, then select the number of overwrite passes on the free space. Hit Wipe !

Note that you can always hit Shift+Delete in order to make sure that the deleted file does not get into the Recycle bin and then select the free space only or the drive name.

Also generally One pass will likely be sufficient, but if you’re really serious about security and privacy then you’ll probably like to do more passes. The time this process will take to complete is based on the number of passes you choose to make as well as the size of your hard drive.

How to use SDelete:- A step-by-step guide

Click here to download SDelete.
For users who don’t need graphical interfaces, Microsoft has a downloadable command-line tool called SDelete. Here’s how to use this tool.

1. Click Start > Run… , type cmd and press OK or Enter (Return). (Windows Vista and Windows 7 users can just click Start and type cmd in the Windows Search box.)

2. Navigate to where you have SDelete downloaded. For example, if it’s located at C:cmdtools, type cd C:cmdtools, and press Enter.

3. Now type sdelete <path to file or directory>, and press Enter, where <path to file or directory> is a standard Windows path. For example, to delete C:mysecuredata.txt, you would type sdelete c:mysecuredata.txt, and press Enter.

4. Once they’re deleted, you will receive confirmation that your files or folders have been permanently deleted, and you’re done!

Now that you have the right tools for the job, you can feel confident in knowing that your data has actually been removed from your hard disk and will no longer be recovered by anyone (not even by you).

Njoy !