NevadaGirl90
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- Jul 26, 2017
Hello:
I am trying to sell a computer to someone else, and want to more or less sanitize my personal info from the computer. I secure-deleted the files with sensitive info, uninstalled my financial software, and then ran a program like Eraser that claimed to effectively wipe all free space. I was able to verify this worked to an extant using a basic file recovery program --- it seemed to show that all my old deleted files were gone (whereas it had shown them as recoverable prior to the free space wipe).
So then I went into "System Protection" and deleted all my System Recovery Points, as I don't want my buyer to be able to inadvertently restore all my old financial software (and it's program files) by running a System Restore.
Here's my question, now that I have deleted all my system recovery points, If I re-run the free-space wipe program, it should theoretically be able to wipe the sectors that were previously occupied by the System Recovery Point files, correct? Meaning, am I correct to assume that Windows 7 does not store the System Recovery files in a virtual location of the harddrive that will never be normally assessable to a free-space wipe program? For note, I don't have the old Windows re-install disk around, and I'm not looking for anything drastic like wiping the whole harddrive and re-installing windows. I just want to sell the computer basically as-is without worrying that my financial software and its (program files with my info) can be later restored or accessed by any tech-savvy user. Believe me, this is a legitimate concern for my situation.
ALSO, If I go to Control Panel>System>System Protection, and then Click "Delete," that does in fact delete ALL of the System/File Recovery Points, correct?
I hope this makes sense. Thanks for your help.
I am trying to sell a computer to someone else, and want to more or less sanitize my personal info from the computer. I secure-deleted the files with sensitive info, uninstalled my financial software, and then ran a program like Eraser that claimed to effectively wipe all free space. I was able to verify this worked to an extant using a basic file recovery program --- it seemed to show that all my old deleted files were gone (whereas it had shown them as recoverable prior to the free space wipe).
So then I went into "System Protection" and deleted all my System Recovery Points, as I don't want my buyer to be able to inadvertently restore all my old financial software (and it's program files) by running a System Restore.
Here's my question, now that I have deleted all my system recovery points, If I re-run the free-space wipe program, it should theoretically be able to wipe the sectors that were previously occupied by the System Recovery Point files, correct? Meaning, am I correct to assume that Windows 7 does not store the System Recovery files in a virtual location of the harddrive that will never be normally assessable to a free-space wipe program? For note, I don't have the old Windows re-install disk around, and I'm not looking for anything drastic like wiping the whole harddrive and re-installing windows. I just want to sell the computer basically as-is without worrying that my financial software and its (program files with my info) can be later restored or accessed by any tech-savvy user. Believe me, this is a legitimate concern for my situation.
ALSO, If I go to Control Panel>System>System Protection, and then Click "Delete," that does in fact delete ALL of the System/File Recovery Points, correct?
I hope this makes sense. Thanks for your help.
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