Tips to completely erase your sensitive data

Maintaining the critical information is a big challenge for most of the people, because important information leakage might leads to a critical problem. Sometimes even a deleted file leads to information leakage, because simply hitting “Delete” button and clearing Recycle Bin or deleting a file using “Shift + Delete” key combination will not completely erase the data from your hard drive.

Whenever you delete any file, only the pointer which points to the stored location of the file will be removed and the space will be marked as available, but the actual stream of bytes still exist on the sector. Until the drive is overwritten with new data, such files can be easily recovered with the help of some data recovery programs.

In case if you want to completely erase the data stored on hard drives or any other storage device, you need to overwrite the stored space with new data. It is bit difficult to overwrite the drive manually, but you can do it in a simple way with the help of file eraser software, which will facilitate you to delete beyond recovery.

Let us have a look at few common scenarios in which a user wants to delete his data beyond recovery.

  • In case if you have stored some critical business related information in your laptop and sometimes later if you need to pass your laptop to different user, then you need to delete the data beyond recovery.
  • Most of the people store their personal and important information in their personal computer. In case if you are selling your computer, then you need to completely erase the data.

Since the operating system does not have any built-in file eraser program, you need to use some good third party tools to erase the files from your hard drive. There are many tools available to delete the data permanently from your computer. They will delete the data from your hard drive and overwrite the stored sector with the help of different file shredding patterns.

Remo File Eraser is one such advanced program which is developed by some expert data recovery professionals, especially for Windows operating system. It facilitates you to completely shred your confidential, sensitive and private data from your computer. Using this tool you can erase your critical information which is stored in hard drives, external drives, USB flash drives, memory cards, iPod’s, etc. This software helps to shred data stored in FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, and NTFS5 formatted partitions or drives which are accessible to Windows operating system.

Remo File shredder uses 9 different shredding patterns which are approved by government and military organizations like Fast Zero Overwrite, Random Overwrite, US Navy, NAVSO P-5239-26 – RLL, US Department of Defense (DOD 5220.22-M), DOD Standard 5220.28 STD, North Atlantic Treaty Organization – NATO standard, Peter Gutmann Secure Deletion, German: VSITR, US Department of Defense (DOD 5220.22-M) + Gutmann Method.

If you are looking for a simple, secure and efficient file eraser program, then download Remo File Shredder.

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