Comments on: Permanently Delete and Remove Sensitive Files to Prevent Data Recovery

By: jim

jim — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:53:51 +0000

Hey i just want to point out that i deleted word documents and they all were on a flash drive.well i downb loaded a program by http://www.diskinternals.com word document recover program,and guess what it found every last one of it in the trial program..my concern is how in the world do i delete it permently.. just so you know diskinternals.com is awesome.i have used sevral of there programs..

By: Zubair Mirza

Zubair Mirza — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:13:14 +0000

ThanKS

you are doing such a great work thanks for your information, i wana wish you best of luck

regards
mz mirza

By: Heather Vancl

Heather Vancl — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:55:02 +0000

i have an apple labtop that someone recently permenately deleted all my files, documents, graphic documents, and photos, is there anyway to get them back? I dont know how they were removed. Any help please!

By: bovine

bovine — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:48:53 +0000

Here is a techie question for ray / all:

I notice newer SATA hard drives, under sata capabilites list such as from software as hard disk sentinel, show that the disk has hardware secure erase capability.

I have not tried this, as I do not want to wipe disk at the moment!

My question is – how do you use the hardware level secure erase, and is it good / presumably also a lot faster than software secure erase?

Any experience anyone?!

Keep up the knowledge

bovine

By: Raymond

Raymond — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:55:58 +0000

I don’t have a special reason why I select UltraShredder. That’s why in the article I mentioned that there are lots, really a lot of free permanent file remover. This is just one of the test I did to proof that file recovery works and file shredding works too.

We’re no experts in this field, so we can’t really tell if the FBI or CIA has technology to recover permanently deleted files. What we are doing is good enough to prevent most of advance IT people from recovering our sensitive files.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:34:50 +0000

“(unless the FBI or KGB is after you, hehe)”

You never know >.>

Anyway, thanks for sharing Raymond ^^

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:46:37 +0000

Sorry, this time I do not get the topic of this thread :(

There are many programs in the category of \’Secure File Deletion\” why talk only about UltraShredder?

One of the most famous one, for example, is Eraser, albeit the new version is a step back and I am using old version.

To get full wipe of data they say you need 35 overwrites with different patterns. There is also the USA DoD specifications. I think for most people one wipe with random data is enough. (unless the FBI or KGB is after you, hehe)

BTW, I find Recuva to be a very basic and unreliable program to recover deleted data. It is fast but cannot find the many files other program might find. I like more GetDataBack, but there are others. Recuva has also very bad search capability, so if you need to find one or 2 files it take a long time.