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To: NOW who wrote (37839)11/12/2003 4:02:47 PM
From: Robert O  Respond to of 110653
 
If you are going to reformat why are you taking the trouble to 'clean away old files'? Reformatting your hard drive will do that for you and some <g>, old files will not be around afterward.

RO



To: NOW who wrote (37839)11/12/2003 4:22:00 PM
From: thecow  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 110653
 
You might try a trial version of something like Ashampoo-WinOptimizer

topshareware.com

I'd just format the disk unless you really are worried about data that you have on the disk. If that's the case you need a sledgehammer



To: NOW who wrote (37839)11/13/2003 2:25:15 PM
From: PMS Witch  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 110653
 
For removing files, I've had good luck with the erasing program available from tolvanen.com

Be careful using FORMAT. A quick format will only overwrite the links to your data and leave the data itself untouched. You should make sure that both the data and the links get removed. Programs designed to do this often overwrite data a number of times, which gets rid of all the tiny traces that can be read with data recovery tools.

Cheers, PW.


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