This can be changed in the Settings to something different if you have a favorite method. If you leave the erase method on default for any drive wiping functions it will perform a random data single pass erase. Different drives or different wipe algorithms will require different schedules. A new task is added to the schedule, Right click and select “Run Now” to start the task. Click the Add Data button, select the “Unused disk space” from the “Target type” drop down, select the “Erasure method”, then choose the drive from the list and click OK twice.

Run the program, right click in the Erase Schedule box, and select New Task. It’s a bit more complicated to run a simple wipe in Eraser than other tools because it works on the basis of schedules and you have to create a schedule to do anything. This includes wiping files, folders, drives, partitions, secure file moving, and wiping empty space. Here’s a selection of 10 free tools to securely wipe free disk space.Įrase is a well known and popular tool to permanently and securely wipe data. Once that is done, old data can no longer be seen or recovered. This is done by erasing only the space on your drive that is not currently occupied by existing files. A good way around this is to use a free utility that is able to make all recoverable data unrecoverable. The image above shows a deleted sensitive file is still viewable in a Hex editor. Over time, the amount of data still readable from previously deleted files can become huge. However, once the file has been emptied from the Recycle Bin, Windows does not offer a simple way to restore it back so the file can be shredded. There are some dedicated tools to permanently wipe or shred the files to prevent them from being recovered as they are deleted. That means the file’s data is still there and can actually be recovered using free data recovery software until it is overwritten by something else. When the file is deleted from the Recycle Bin it is not completely gone but the space on the drive occupied by the file has been marked as available to be overwritten. Everyone knows that when you delete a file in Windows it is first moved to the Recycle Bin.

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