How to permanently delete your PC data

Your first thought may be that when you 'delete' the file, the data is gone. Not quite, when you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.Before the file is overwritten, anyone can easily retrieve it with a disk maintenance or an undelete utility.

 I recommend using the free program Eraser to permanently delete your data. Eraser writes over files with meaningless data, making the files unrecoverable. The program offers many options for deleting files.

Why Use Eraser?

There are several problems in secure file removal, mostly caused by the use of write cache, construction of the hard disk and the use of data encoding. These problems have been taken into consideration when Eraser was designed, and because of this intuitive design and a simple user interface, you can safely and easily erase private data from your hard drive.