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Originally Posted by Urzu 7
So how could I overwrite data?
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If you're using Windows, you can format the drive and then run the following command in the command prompt:
That command will remove data from available unused disk space on drive E (which is the whole drive after a format), but it will take some time depending on the size of your drive so you might want to do it whenever you can leave the computer on for a long time.
Just make sure to format the drive first and to change E to the current drive letter of your drive.
Or just search for other tools for Windows and/or other operating systems.
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Would it be a good idea to edit and modify certain pics and certain word documents? I could take pictures with me, friends, and family and then just crop the picture to a small segment of the picture (a part with no person, like a counter or a tree or a shoe) and then for written documents, I could just use Select All, delete, and then type in something like "blank document" and then save the document. Then I could format the hard drive. In the event someone down the line gets my hard drive that wants to recover the data, all the personal info would be edited so that nothing personal is there to see. Would this idea work?
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I'm not sure if that will work, but either way, it seems a hassle to me and you might miss a file or two, or even a metadata in one or more of those files.