Then there’s the method we’re talking about here which is to completely overwrite and wipe the file or folder as you go. You can also erase the deleted data off a current drive by wiping all its free space. If you sell or give your drive to somebody else, it needs to be completely wiped so nothing is left that can be recovered by the new owner. There are various ways to overwrite deleted files. Once a deleted file has been overwritten, it’s very difficult to recover and more professional methods would be needed to get any readable data back. In this case, a free tool that you can use to recover data is all that’s required.īut this is obviously not good if you want to permanently delete a personal or private file because anyone could just try to recover it. That’s because the file is never truly deleted and Windows is just told that the space the file occupies is available to write over when needed.
In Windows, if you delete an important file, even from the Recycle bin, it’s still entirely possible to recover that file as long as it doesn’t get overwritten between its deletion and your attempt at recovery.
