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Originally Posted by enigma2
Kinda true Anoree, the bit about fragmentation of the hard disk, this wouldn't do anything really, even if you do a full format of your hard drive you can still get the data off the disk, so a defrag wouldn't really do much.
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defragmentation (you should quote me right
) the file directories are usually rewritten, omitting unused (i.e. deleted) file entries.
Data is moved multiple times from one section of the harddisk to another, so deleted temp files may be overwritten. It's not guaranteed, though, and far from a safe deletion.
(At least that's how defragmentations worked in previous windows versions.)
A free tool to safely delete files or the free area of the harddisk may be
SDelete from Microsoft's Sysinternals.