belliott
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 48
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:11 pm Post subject: wipe free space before donate your computer |
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I'd like to thank Donald again for kind words about QuickWiper.
Thank you! Have a good experience with QuickWiper:
Donald wrote: The reason I was looking for a file wipe utility is that I have a 5 year old PC that I'm planning on getting rid of. Possibly a donation. I've been using the PC to keep a lot of financial records and data on both for myself and my church.
I am aware that erased files can be recovered with file recovery utilities simply due to the way Windows deletes files. Stuff is never really gone until it's written over and even then only maybe. On another older PC, I had re-formatted the hard drive to get rid of any data and then reloaded the software. That was a lot of work. Norton use to have a file wipe utility but not any more.
So I went looking on the net for a file wipe utility. I downloaded the free trail version of Quick wipe and tried it out. It was fairly simple to run and when it was done I still had the files that I didn't want erased. It was simple and reliable and didn't require a lot of drive space. I like that. So I ordered the registered version so I could over write the free space with the NSA algorithm. For me it was worth the $29 just for the peace of mind.
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