looking for a good free freespace wiper

[anres]

Does anyone know of a good and free freespace wiper? Sure, CClean has wipe free space option, but this is not the same as what I have in mind. CClean only wipes unoccupied sectors.

 

Many years ago, when PGP was still doing humanly good, it used to provide a free personal version of PGP that had a freespace wipe function - it not only wipes sectors that are completely unused, but also wipes the unused portion of occupied sectors. But of course, they stopped being nice and stopped giving away anything free anymore.

 

So I am just wondering if anyone knows of some freeware that does this? Thanks.

[marmite]

If you're happy with the command line, they don't get much quicker than Sysinternal's sdelete ... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb897443.aspx

[marmite]

And of course there's always Eraser.

 

(Ducks and waits for the regurgitated debate about how it's not as good as it used to be and which version is the best)

[Andavari]

And of course there's always Eraser.

 

(Ducks and waits for the regurgitated debate about how it's not as good as it used to be and which version is the best)

Nothing newer than version 5.7, which is what I use although it does have some misgivings of its own. I wouldn't touch any newer builds.

[marmite]

I've been on 5.8.7 for donkeys years, never had an issue and yes it works. Haven't bothered intercepting 6 though.

[anres]

great. I will check out all the suggestions yens made. thanks.