Please, Need help !! (urgently)

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:confused:Hi everyone,

here is my situation,

I deleted my personal files and folders ( movies, pictures, mp3,....)
and i have put a new data in the hard disk,
now, i have no problem with recovering them.

What i want to ask about is the following:

1- if i copied the new data into other hard disk, does the old deleted files beneath them get copied too???

2- How do i make sure that those deletd files are gone for ever??

i have tried DBAN, but it erases the hard disk entirley.
i have tried eraser and file shreder, but they only shred the free disk space.

3- does anybod knows how to clean the entire hard disk from the alreay deleted files without deleting the existing files??

i dont' want to copy the existing files into other hard disk, then wipe the free space and move it back again.

Please, i need help urgently.

Thanks
 
If you copied the recovered files to another hard disk, the previous copies are not copied.

If you deleted the unwanted files before running the free space cleaners (and emptied the Recycle Bin too), you have shredded those unwanted files. They are part of the free space.

Some file utilities such as Directory Opus have a secure delete option which overwrites the files to whatever degree you want. I'm sure there are others.
 
if i have this right you want keep some files on your drive, but wipe the rest of the free space, if you use ccleaner 3.02 it has a feature to wipe the empty free space without erasing your files.
 
You did not got me right

I dun wanna wipe the free space only, i wanna wipe the used and the unsed space without deleting the folders in the used space.

i wanna make sure that the files already deleted are gone forever.


and am not asking about copying the recovered files, my question is:

if i copied the files that i have been overwritten the deleted files, would the copy has the clusters of the deleted files.

to be more specific: if i copied the new files into another clean hard disk, and run a recovery program, would i still be able to recover the old data??

please help
 
No and you couldn't recover the overwritten ones currently. Those who possibly could even read are only people you would need to be concerned about if you are doing something very illegal. I will go out on a limb here, even they can't. No one can read the old so no way they can erase and save current.

People watch way too much TV. The reality is if you delete things I or anyone can recover, as long as not overwritten. Once it is overwritten find me a company that can? There is very real doubt if even the government can do. All this silly nonsense is because of a New Zealand Professor in 1996 published a paper "proposing" how it could be done by using residual magnetism. He didn't do it. And he proposed it on the original consumer HDD's that were already 10 year old at the time. The current areal density makes this impossible.

But yes make a copy and there is no way residual magnetism will follow so then you can wipe the entire drive.

You should relax and feel good you have nothing to worry about.
 
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