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Deleted files and how to wipe completely form hard drive

Deleted files and how to wipe completely form hard drive easy step-by-step tutorial

 





Where deleted files go's from  recycle bin? 
a short defenetion about deleted files and it's working mechanism;
did you notice when you format a partition of your hard drive,  that a part of it disappears? meaning when  the capacity of your  hard drive is 40 GB, after format you find out become 39 or 38 Gb! where go's that 2 Gb?
from here the answer begin, after the formating, the Computer books certain percentage of the hard drive, according to its size, we can call it ( index ), and that for certain things:


× like saving titles of  saved files in the same hard-drive

× saving informations about those files , size and kind of the file (format), characteristics.

× save data about hard-drive it self.

× other data.

When you save a file on your harddrive,  the computer makes things like:

1. Write the file on the hard drive in a connected or fragmented way (in one place or several places )

And for that matter we use cancel fragments ( Defragmenter)

2. Make a title for it in a invisible zone in the hard drive. (Index) And that to access to the file and it's data like shortcut desktop  in fast way

3. Prevention of writing on the (Sectors ) wher the file is written  .


And that invisible zone (index) gaves you all the data as i mentioned above,  about the hard drive or the files stored on that hard drive .
When we delete the file , the its self wil be deleted its just its title and it's characteristics from the (index ),
 In that condition has no immunity preventing of writing on it and remains present in its true place to be writing it by any file or program, be cause of that any recovery program make full search on the hard drive and linking between parts of the Files fragmented existed in it, and the deleted by titles from index, for that matter it takes long time, but if
If it has  write above it,  all recovery  programs will fail to restore that file.

That way  any deleted file can be recovered, because its still available in place in the hard drive.

Way the computer not wiping the file with its title in first place ? 

For important facts : to maintain the integrity of the surface of hard drive from the large number of writing on a file, so be preserved in this way, also regard to the formatting, when you formatting one of the hard drive parts you find out that it takes just seconds what ever the size of you hard drive ,
Why? ?

For the same reason, the formatting process is only deleting the titles of you data file and its characteristics, and all the you file remain in the hard drive, but the computer not seeing it,  However, through a  third program like Recovery software , that way can see the formatted data.

But the heavy formatting, through DOS in the computerr system, it takes a long time to complete the formatting,  according to hard drive capacity,
Because the process pass on the sectors hard drive, and writing them and modified, so does not recommended always, for its effect  on the hard drive.

Because of that you release that software specialized take to much of time to complete the process,  it writing above the basic file.


How to completely wipe your hard drive  from deleted files completely:


Now i will show you how to completely delete those files from you hard drive  with a single  command using  (RUN) windows in windows to run  automatically  a cmd system program with one commnad ;


 First we need to one ( Run ) from windows list as i said before






Now write this command
( cipher /w:c )





Note:
C = means the hard drive , if you have another multiple drive change the litter  C to the partition you desire, the DOS window will appear, let the program work,, And prefer to shut down all open programs.




The process take from 10 to 15 minutes,, In addition to delete files finlly and completely , you will win a  good of new free hard drive space.


Thank you for your read , i hope from God this technique solve your problem with space and optimize the performance of your hard drive,  and a comment below if there any suggestions or problems or if just wana thank me :) , please if like more tutorials like this join my social pages



About the Author

Hello, my name is Khalid from Morocco, aged 35 years, I am a blogger, developer, and the creator of zoom4display and zoom4diet blogs, as you can see I am very interested and passionate to repair and find new ideas to easier our daily life at home, …

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