Guaranteeing deletion of files without DBan'ing my HD?

[SenseiJT92]

Okay, so basically, I've deleted files on my HD which I don't want anymore, nor do I want anyone else to find them.

This firstly is not a thread asking to try and evade 'legality' but simply to ask how would I guarantee that a file that I wanted to be gone, is gone and untraceable?

So, my first step was to delete the file (obviously),

> Deleted, then deleted from Re-cycle bin.

> Ran de-frag to re-order all information around and hope that bits and bytes of the deleted file were also moved around.

> Ran 'No File Recovery' to fill all magnetic memory with random 1's and 0's to further increase difficulty of retrieving file.

> Ran CCCleaner, just to make sure,

> De-fragged hard-drive again.



Now I'm a noob when it comes to understanding exactly what I did there, however I hope that I've done enough to make certain files irretrievable, and without the need of completely Nuking my hard-drive and having to suffer through the long process of re-installing my OS.

Thoughts/suggestions to help me increase my HD security?

Cheers!

[Freddie]

To remove the offending evidence delete the data in the normal way, defrag, fill up the renaming hard drive space with useless data (say a DVD image's) and delete that then defrag again so long as you have rearranged the 0's and 1's at least once the first data will be almost impossible to find.

Of course making a concerted effort to making sure your data is can't be recovered will be treated as suspicious behaviour by the police.

[SenseiJT92]

Of course making a concerted effort to making sure your data is can't be recovered will be treated as suspicious behaviour by the police.

This is true aha! :3 however I hope that they aren't on to me already for even to notice that I'm being over-protective,

to be honest, all in all, if they wanted to see what I've been downloading I guess they could go through the ISP :/ hmm >.<

[bigfootedfred]

hammer and a chisel, works fine for me.

Get hamerring.

heh...just kidding, though when your done with the drive, is a good idea

[mw2xboxplayer]

Sounds like you pretty much did everything that would prevent the recovery of your files.

Did you download too much pron from 4chan or something?

[SenseiJT92]

I download lots of music/games/software/porn and a lot of these do come from 4Chan sources/rar's

However, I didn't say that.

[mw2xboxplayer]

I download lots of music/games/software/porn and a lot of these do come from 4Chan sources/rar's

However, I didn't say that.

I could have guessed as much.

Download safely Anon.