[Seasider247]

Hi all,

I’ve encountered a problem I hope someone can help me with. Afraid I’m a near-novice, so treat me gently!

All the data erasers I’ve used don’t seem able to delete the many JPEGS and word documents I would like to see the back of. I routinely use CCleaner, set to the 35-pass option after each surfing session. Have tried using several data removal utilities including Stellar Wipe and Eraser but the data is easily recovered, intact, using a recovery utility called Pandora.

Even blitzing individual JPEGS with a 35-pass overwrite has no effect.

I’m currently using Windows XP & following advice have turned off the System Restore and Volume Shadow Service to prevent copies of the data being made, but this has had no effect. The only thing that works is overwriting the entire hard drive, but this is time consuming. What I need to know is why all this data seems impervious to my attempts to delete it.

Any advice would be much appreciated

[Made-In-Canada]

Try using Glary Utilities FREE (for private use)...

www.glaryutilities.com it follows the American Dod 5220.22-M developed by the US Department of Defence.

You can choose how many times you want to repeat the delete operation.

Pandora wasn't able to recover the files.

[karbo]

I use File Shredder

[IMP49]

Kinda partial to FileAssasin, freewarehttp://www.malwarebytes.org/fileassassin.php found here:

[Seasider247]

Thanks for the advice which I've tried, but to no avail!

I've also:

• Detached my secondary hard drive whilst attempting to delete data from my main one
• Uninstalled ERASER
• Downloaded a utility called DIRSNOOP and purged the Master File Type entries. I used this utility to delete individual files that had been recovered.

Yet once I run Pandora all the data is again restored.

Any other suggestions?

[Made-In-Canada]

That's weird. Have you tried my suggestion, Glary Utilities. After you wipe delete the file, use the clear free space option.

[Kenny94]

Originally Posted by karbo

I use File Shredder

Me too....

[karbo]

Originally Posted by Kenny94

Me too....