Erasing Free Space?

drumthrasher · 09-26-2008, 03:15 PM

Is it safe to erase your free space??

Kage · 09-26-2008, 07:29 PM

Erase your free space?... How do you mean?

religion2386 · 09-26-2008, 07:49 PM

if its free isnt already erased?.....Defrag your computer to "free" up some space

NEED WOW NOW · 09-26-2008, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by drumthrasher

Is it safe to erase your free space??

Are you feeling well?

If you mean to get rid of the extra free space on a Hard drive, why would you want to?

Seriously, I would get some rest if I were you.

**T-MAN** · 09-26-2008, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by drumthrasher

Is it safe to erase your free space??

I think you probably need to explain what you mean a bit clearer mate.

drumthrasher · 09-26-2008, 08:48 PM

Oh my god, you guys don't know what this is?

Erasing free space is where it permanently erases your free space and makes all the files unrecoverable. I'm just wondering if by doing it, is it safe as in it won't mess up any of your current files.

**T-MAN** · 09-26-2008, 08:50 PM

Why would you do that?

**Lowndsey** · 09-26-2008, 08:50 PM

is there really anything that bad on your computer that you need to do that?

StratosP · 09-27-2008, 01:53 AM

Erasing free space is like locking all the extra free space on your hard drive, am I right?

Isn't that an extra feature on Tracks Eraser Pro or something?

But I think it's useless, don't do it.

drumthrasher · 09-27-2008, 10:14 AM

NOOOO!

Erasing your free space is where it literally ERASES your free space on your hard drive to make all of your previously deleted files permenantly unrecoverable.

j03 · 09-27-2008, 10:16 AM

Yeah - From what I know, When you delete a file, it just removes it from the filesystem's list - And it doesnt actually remove the bytes from the hard drive.

I guess you it wouldnt really affect the hard drive.. What program would you use?

drumthrasher · 09-27-2008, 10:40 AM

nCleaner: http://www.nkprods.com/ncleaner/

Atomic Rooster · 09-27-2008, 10:54 AM

After looking through their support forum, it seems that fi properly used, the "Shred Free Space" feature of that program will do just that. It will clean your drive of the selected files and leave your current files in tact.

StratosP · 09-27-2008, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by drumthrasher

NOOOO!

Erasing your free space is where it literally ERASES your free space on your hard drive to make all of your previously deleted files permenantly unrecoverable.

Oh Sorry, I thought that's what it was because on Tracks Eraser Pro it has something related to that.

Delete your previously delete files so it is unrecoverable...just shred is using Tracks Eraser Pro or Shift+Delete. Isn't is deleted? Or do you mean all the tracks in the registry and system restore points etc etc?

drumthrasher · 09-29-2008, 09:43 AM

lol, nevermind all of this. I went ahead and shredded everything with nCleaner and all is good.

Austinn · 09-29-2008, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by drumthrasher

lol, nevermind all of this. I went ahead and shredded everything with nCleaner and all is good.

I went thru all the options on that too. Seems to work pretty good. it gave me about 3 gb's back.
I didnt use the Find Junk feature. Did you? It looked like it found a bunch of files I need.

drumthrasher · 09-29-2008, 02:48 PM

No, I never use that. Everything else I use.