Store data on an external drive and you need to be aware that erasing or formatting that drive will leave the contents recoverable. Give the drive to another person and they could spend time with recovery software attempting to search and find files you've previously stored on the drive. Worse, give away an old computer and it may still contain your accounts, email correspondence and other personal files you believe you deleted securely, when you moved them to trash.

Free Wipe Wizard 1.5 is a completely free tool that enables you to safely and securely wipe files from your internal or any external drive, including removable media. It uses an algorithm to go back over the content, so even if someone attempts recover the content, they'll find a mash of files rather than anything usable.

Free Wipe Wizard link.

04 Jun 2008