What is required to completely delete digital files?

There are two interesting dynamics to the idea of deleting files. The first as we often discuss is that when you delete a file you are not at all deleting the contents of that file. You are merely marking the space that the file used as now available for data storage. So, you can use a file recovery tool to locate and restore that file anytime you need to, provided you have not overwritten the area with new data.

The second dynamic is that when you delete a file it is, as stated not completely eliminated so anyone with a data recovery program and access to your computer can read that data. Hence deleted files are either recoverable when you want to rescue them or recoverable when you want them completely erased. For this reason Disk Doctors offers a file shredder program. Disk Doctor File Shredder will tear the data in a file down to its smallest components and scramble them many times over so that they can never be reconstructed. Disk Doctors file shredder is so powerful that it exceeds the top-secret stands for document and data destruction as set forth for the United States Department of Defense.

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