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1. #IS IT SAFE TO DELETE ZERO BYTE FILES IN WINDOWS 7 PORTABLE#
2. #IS IT SAFE TO DELETE ZERO BYTE FILES IN WINDOWS 7 PC#

This is another important factor when it comes to this, because, even if you securely deletes a file, a copy of it might be available in the ‘free space’ in that drive, but how?, Has an option to delete the ‘free space’ of your storage device. Overwrite the file from ‘1’ to ’32’ times.

Pretty easy to use as you can just drag and drop files or folders for deleting. No installation is required, just extract the ‘executable’ inside the compressed archive, save it to somewhere (say on an USB drive) and then simply double click on it to run. What it does is simple, just like any other application, it first scans the file and finds the sectors that hold the file’s data and then simply overwrites all those sectors with ‘NULL data’ (‘zero byte’ files, garbage content in other words :D).

#IS IT SAFE TO DELETE ZERO BYTE FILES IN WINDOWS 7 PORTABLE#

If you’re looking for a extremely small (about 36 Kilobytes!) and a portable tool, then try ‘Blank And Secure’.

#IS IT SAFE TO DELETE ZERO BYTE FILES IN WINDOWS 7 PC#

This is also the reason why anyone can attempt a recovery of deleted files later (might not always work though).Īn operating system does not try to ‘securely delete’ a file simply because it can take a considerable amount of time (depending on the file’s size and many other factors, such as due to limitations of the file system for instance) and for most people, under most circumstances, securely deleting files might not be necessary at all.īut, let’s say that you’re giving away your PC or HDD for example and got worried that even after removing all the partitions and reformatting the disks etc, someone might still be able to recover your data (highly possible!), then you should use some sort of a secure file deleting utility. When you delete a file in MS Windows (also true to almost all the other operating systems) it just ‘lazily’ removes the file only from its index, rather than individually cleaning up (deleting) each ‘sector’ that constitutes the file.