RE: Fucking Governmnent...
March 8, 2012 at 7:03 pm
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2012 at 7:04 pm by Doubting Thomas.)
I guess if you really wanted to overwrite empty space on your hard drive, just start downloading a bunch of innocuous data, like say music, movies, or pictures, something which takes up a lot of space. Keep them in a throwaway folder, and just keep downloading a bunch more frivolous stuff. After you've downloaded several GB of crap, delete it. Of course there's no guarantee that the space you wanted to overwrite was overwritten, but after doing this for a while the chances of your deleted files being permanently deleted are greater. Plus, doing this after a HD defrag should help a bit, since the defragged data will overwrite some spots on the hard drive. Or, if you have a large program on a flash drive, simply copy it to your hard drive and delete it. I've got a program with a 4 GB installation file, and my nephew gave me 8GB of old DOS games. I'd think copying them to your hard drive a few times under different names would overwrite quite a bit of space.
Back in my Windows 3.11 days, my computer came with an undelete program. I liked to delete old files, then see how much data it'd take to overwrite them. Often just recording static from the radio as .wav files to the computer was enough to erase everything.
Back in my Windows 3.11 days, my computer came with an undelete program. I liked to delete old files, then see how much data it'd take to overwrite them. Often just recording static from the radio as .wav files to the computer was enough to erase everything.
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