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How do I delete files permanently from my computer and make it unrecoverable?
Of course! I've totally been there, sweating over some old personal files. These days I swear by Dr-Wiper — it's a pro-level tool that uses some hardcore military-grade wiping to overwrite everything. Once it's done, that data is gone for good. No recovery, no worries.
I followed this tutorial: https://www.anywinhub.com/permanently-delete-files-from-pc
I suggest giving a try on the file shredding utilities that are specifically designed to overwrite files multiple times. It will make recovery virtually impossible. One good example is SDelete, a free command-line utility from Microsoft’s Sysinternals suite for securely deleting files. Here is how to use it to permanently delete files from Windows PC:
- Get it from the Sysinternals website and extract the executable.
- Navigate to the directory containing sdelete.exe.
- sdelete -p 3 "C:\Path\To\File.txt"
- Replace 3 with the number of overwrite passes and "C:\Path\To\File.txt" with the path to your file.
- SDelete will overwrite the file data, making it unrecoverable.
For bulk operation, this command utility is not suitable.
P.S. If you need to ensure that data is completely unrecoverable, especially when disposing of old drives, physical destruction is the most foolproof method.