Anyone ever used - Free Wipe Wizard?

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I've never used the program you asked about because I use two others that work well for me.
I use DBAB when I want to zero out a drive and Eraser when I want to overwrite files, directories or free space. It will overwrite 1, 3, 7, or 35 times.
http://majorgeeks.com/Eraser_d4221.html

I've used eraser in the past two weeks to erase directories from my external hard drive.

 

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Not used Free Wipe Wizard, but do have to secure erase the contents of a folder and USB pen that may at times hold sensitive and NDA data on for my work or other test stuff, the application I do tend to use is Eraser as mentioned above as it does a good job of allowing you to build up a list of default tasks.

However I noticed you also like CCleaner and recomend it but did you also know that it can secure erase too? doesnt have as many erase routines as Eraser but covers the most common and best used ones Gutmann (35pass is kinda overkill IMHO unless you are hiding from the folk with Blackhawks) but the DOD 3 and 7 pass ones are fine for everyday usage and I did a test with 4 different file recovery apps and not one recovered the files I had erased using DOD 5220.22M (3 Pass)


To set CCleaner to defaultly wipe files that you generally clean in the temps etc and any custom folders or manually added files you have added, goto in CCleaner Options > Settings and under Secure Deletion are the options, just a neat option in Ccleaner (just a pitty CCleaner doesnt yet do the root of a USB pen)

 

Sorry, I misspelled, it is DBAN and the link is http://majorgeeks.com/Dariks_Boot_and_Nuke_d4596.html
according to the specs is says all versions of windows. You use a boot floppy or boot CD. Start the computer with that and it will zero out the hd. Eraser uses the DBAN technology so it is okay to just use DBAN if you want to wipe out an entire hd. You do not need to run both.
Eraser is handy to wipe (zero out) individual files or empty space which might have fragments of files on the "free space" part of the hd from defragging.

 

That I don't know. What I do with my flash drives is move the files off the flash drive onto the computer desktop and erase them from there. Since the flash drive has a limited number of writes, I feel it is safer to prolong the drive by NOT writing over things 35 times.
My eeepc has a ssd (solid state drive) which is the same as a flash drive. I don't erase nor defrag it.

When I check the flash drive, after I've moved my items off, it tells me the full size and says 0 GB used so I assume it doesn't have a directory on it with items I've moved off. I do this instead of deleting files on my flash drives.

If you are concerned, you could format the flash drive.