Free program that will allow you to wipe your hard disks or flash drives from an old information, that can be restored by others.
Price: Free.
You can support development and unlock extra features by purchasing a license ( $10 ).
download disk redactor purchase disk redactorSupported systems: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7 ( Seven ), Windows 8 ( Eight ), Windows 10
NOTE: NTFS and FAT32 file systems are supported.
Bottom Line: Disk Redactor is a disk wipe utility that prevents deleted files on your media (which includes hard and floppy disks, and even flash drives) from being recovered.
Disk Redactor is a WIPE utility that lets you securely erase any old ( deleted ) files and prevent them from being recovered. All your private sensitive insecurely erased information will be wiped from free unused space on your drives to ensure complete data destruction.
This is necessary because when you delete a file, it is not gone forever, and any file removed from the Recycle Bin can be easily recovered! The Windows delete function does not clear the space where the deleted file has been located but only marks an entry in the directory (folder) as deleted. All data and information about the file still remains on the disk and can be restored!
Old data will be available until another file overwrites it (uses the same space on the disk). The only way to prevent data from being recovered is to overwrite it.
The functions that Disk Redactor performs are wiping all free unused space on your disks, and writing a big file with zeros to overwrite all old (deleted) files on your drive. After using Disk Redactor, all old data will be erased completely without any chances for its recovery.
Use Disk Redactor every time you delete files containg your confidential and sensitive data, otherwise this data can be easily recovered.
Note: This utility is free, and we take off from any problems, technical support and other situations regarding this software.
Please use at your own risk.
One thing that we can say: we at CEZEO use this software, and it works for us very well.
Instructions:
- 1. Launch Disk Redactor
- 2. Use the Wipe Disk button to select the disk you wish to wipe (erase deleted files) and answer Yes to confirm.
- 3. Wait until the progress bar reaches 100%.
New features!
Command line options:
Disk-redactor.exe /p:"path to drive or folder to wipe" /a
/p - path to drive or folder to wipe
/a - auto close when operation will be completed
And now Disk Redactor can be used on FAT32 drives!
Please note!
DiskRedactor does not delete an old filenames. You will be able to see the deleted filenames, but content of the files will be wiped out.
Tips!
"I have discovered a particularly powerful use for your Disk Redactor; Preparing a system for "disk image" backup. By setting all unused space to 0x00, the size of Acronis TrueImage (ATI) output files is significantly reduced."