Recycle Bin Deletes into hard drive, how delete completely

Ladywriter1968

Once I have deleted from my bin it goes into the hard drive, which I believe can still retrieved, how do I removed from my pc completely and hard drive?

Cornucopia

Once something is deleted from the recycle bin, it is gone as far as "basic" users are concerned. You would need a specialised "undelete" tool to recover it at that stage.

To get rid completely, either get a specialist tool to do this, or fill the whole drive up with other stuff.

More here: http://www.labnol.org/software/permanently-delete-computer-files/6076/

[Deleted User]

Hi,

you could try using CCleaner, link, and here'a a how to link.

isofa

Us professionals tend to use the free, excellent and well established Eraser: http://eraser.heidi.ie
You can then erase permanently specific files and much more besides with many options.

Truepat

For many years now we have been using axcrypt
http://www.axantum.com/

Free to use and also offers file encryption. Basically just right click the file and select 'axcrypt -> shred and delete'