Some of these tools also allow you to securely wipe the free space on your hard drive, making any files and folders you erased without using a secure method unrecoverable. Portable secure erase tools are useful if you often use public computers. Several of these tools are portable and can be stored on a USB flash drive.
Today we’ll cover seven other free tools for Windows that help you securely erase data from your hard drive so it can’t be recovered. We’ve previously covered how to use CCleaner to delete files securely. It gets worse even after a file is overwritten while saving more files to your hard drive, it might still be recoverable if enough fragments of the file exist and the person making a recovery has the right technical know-how and tools.