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Windows Vista Problem w/ File Shredder

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by TheClash12321, 2009/01/31.

  1. 2009/01/31
    TheClash12321

    TheClash12321 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hey. I had heard about a program called File Shredder that completely got rid of things that you deleted so that they are no longer there at all. Right away I thought, "Yay, I can free up unused space." But I guess I didn't realize that what it really does is cover up the deleted files with a bunch of random information.

    Now, I don't know if that is the reason or not, but right after I used it wipe the free space on my C: drive (which I thought meant going around and finding the files to be permanently deleted), it pretty much removed 80-90GB of my free space. Now I have approximately 1.5GB of free space left out 136GB.

    My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1521 with Windows Vista. Is there anything that I can do to get that space back or is it gone forever? Maybe it'll help if I reset the laptop to factory settings?

    By the way, I already tried using a file recovery system, hoping it might help. But it only said I don't have enough space to recover all the items. Which, I guess is kind of obvious. :rolleyes:

    Anyways, this is really irritating and I would like to find out if I can fix this issue without buying a new laptop and it would be preferable if I didn't have to reset the laptop to factory settings, but I will if I have to.

    Thank you very much.
     
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  2. 2009/02/21
    Gandalf

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    Do you still have the File Shredder program installed?

    I suspect if you uninstall the File Shredder program, you might find your free disk space reappears.
     
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  4. 2009/02/21
    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    Which option did you select:

    Usage

    Add File(s) - Click to add files ready to be shredded. A file picker will appear. Select one or more files and press open. The files will appear in main pane. You can add as manu files as you want. Note that adding the files into shredding queue does not delete them and you can remove the files from queue latter

    Add Folder(s) - Click to add folders ready to be shredded. A folder picker will appear. Select a folder and press open. The folder will appear in main pane. You can add as manu folders as you want but you have to add them one by one. The whole folder structure is added including files and subfolders.

    Remove Selected - Click to remove a file(s) or folder(s) from the shredding queue. Don't confuse this option with Shred Files Now, this option only removes files that are intended for shredding from the queue and no changes are made to the actual files or folders on hard drive.

    Remove All - Click to remove all file(s) or folder(s) from the shredding queue. This option does the same as Remove Selected but it will clean the complete queue. No changes to files and folders on hard drive will occur.

    Shred Free Disk Space - This option will shred unused or free disk space across the whole disk volume. For instance, this option is very useful if you haven't shred your unwanted files regularly but instead you used regular windows delete command and now you want your previously deleted files unretrievable. Those files now can not be shredded by picking them since they are already deleted. This option will enforce shredding of everything you have deleted once using the regular delete command, whether it was yesterday or months ago.

    Shred Free Disk Space - After you picked the files ready to be shredded click on this button to execute permanent removal of files. Warning: this option can not be undone, make sure you haven't picked non intended files accidentally.
    Online Help for File Shredder
     
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