Wiping free space

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I used some programs to wipe the free space on my hard drive. I then used a
program to recover deleted files. To my surprise, it found about 6,000
deleted file names from the last 4 years.

They were not recoverable, but i was wondering how does one get rid of all
those old file names? Where are they stored?

TIA!

The Wizard of Odd


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I used many demos, freeware, and shareware to wipe the free space. I just
tried "RecoverMyFiles", a recovery program. It located the name of 13,000
files. That was the "Quick Search." The vast majority were labeled as
overwritten. I have defraged many times over the years. I have also
created a huge file which i copied over and over until it filled my hard
drive. Then i deleted it and wiped the free space.

Where are the names of every file i ever used stored? How does one get rid
of these? They don't do any harm, but i'd still like to get rid of them.

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"Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsystems.c*o*m> wrote in message
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> The only way to be sure the files are not recoverable is to destroy the
> drive. Smashing the platter into several pieces or melting it should
> suffice :-)
>
> All joking aside that really is the only way to be sure.

What about the Peter Gutmann method - it is an algorithm that seems to be
very difficult to recover files - it writes over your disk about 10 times in
such a way that you would need to be a terrorist suspect for anyone to
bother to try and recover