I recently moved a large number of files from my laptop hard-drive to an external hard-drive. I now wish to cleanup the now free area in my laptop computer. I remember taking a class in college and the professor was talking about a program that randomly feels any free hard-drive space in your computer with random 1's and 0's and then deletes them, thus masking any traces of the files that used to exist there. (the professor recommended running this program, several times (5 to 7) in order to succesfully erase all traces).
Since I was probably drunk at the time, or because of several drunk episodes since the completion this class, I cant seem to remember the name of the program.
Does anyone know of such a program? Do you have any recommendations of how I might be able to achieve my goal? I will be eternally grateful for any help I can get on this.
(Sorry for my long ass story)
Since I was probably drunk at the time, or because of several drunk episodes since the completion this class, I cant seem to remember the name of the program.
Does anyone know of such a program? Do you have any recommendations of how I might be able to achieve my goal? I will be eternally grateful for any help I can get on this.
(Sorry for my long ass story)