Everybody has secrets. And sometimes you store your secrets in your computer. And your files are stored in your hard drive or flash disk. Once stored in your hard drive, a techie can steal and restore your files from your secret hidden place in your hard drive, even if your hard drive is formatted 10 times. Yes that’s possible and I’m telling you now.
So if you have dirty secrets and they are highly confidential to you — say, a love letter that was never sent or your photos from your mobile — you have to be really careful with that. Even if you delete or format that memory card 10 times, someone can restore it and they can steal your data. And this can be the worst nightmare. And you won’t want that to happen.
You can hardly imagine how much information can be recovered from a hard disk. Most software recovery tools can dig out information that exceeds by 300% the volume of your hard drive. That means that at least 3 layers of information can be restored; and this even without using hardware recovery, which brings up much more.
I’m not going to tell you how to recover those deleted files in this article. I’m going to tell you how to erase your file so it will be unrecoverable anymore, or at least much much harder to recover. You would have to use hardware recovery to restore it and I think it won’t be 100% recoverable. And only very few techies can do that.
So if you have that kind of secret, you can use Freeraser from Codyssey to irreversibly erase your files. This free tool is very handy, lightweight, and easy to use. I tried this tool, using Ultimate destruction mode to delete a txt file, an image file (jpg format), and a video file (mp4 format). And tried to recover those three files. The result is, the file was still found but completely broken and unreadable, and the file size was less than 30% recovered.