Permantly erases large files

[Guest]

Does anybody know of a progamme which safely permantly erases/shreds large
files i.e movies/photo's from my hard drive and is supported by Vista 64 bit.
Doesn't matter about it being free or paid for?

 

[Alexander Suhovey]

If you are fine with command-line interface, there's a couple of options I
can recommend:

- Built-in CIPHER utility has /W switch that performs DoD-compliant (read
safe) multi-pass wipe of free space on any disk you point it to. For more
info refer to "CIPHER /?" help. Cons: it doesn't work with files, only with
free space so you need to Shift-delete file in question first. Also, wiping
the whole free space can take considerably more time than a single file.

- Sdelete.exe utility from Mark Russinovich is available as free download
from Microsoft web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Security/SDelete.mspx
Cons: it doesn't have GUI

If you need a GUI application, I'm sure you can find plenty of them by using
keywords like "safe delete" or "wipe" in your favorite search engine.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that Alexander, I will look into that and also do a search for it,
I used to have a couple of programmes, one woul shredd it or I could use an
incinerator, but sadly not viable with Vista 64 bit.

 

[Nicole & Tom]

Does anybody know of a progamme which safely permantly erases/shreds large
files i.e movies/photo's from my hard drive and is supported by Vista 64 bit.
Doesn't matter about it being free or paid for?

How about the shredder in Defender.

You already have it, and it works ok for me.

Tom