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Title: Shred Whole Drive
Post by: REDACTED on September 25, 2017, 11:50:40 AM

Hi,

If I run shred whole drive after a reinstall on c:/ will it delete windows and cause problems whilst doing it.  Or does it just fill up the empty space and delete old windows etc?

It's a bit sketchy in the description as it just says it will shred the whole drive, so I presume all files/folders are gone :/ 

Title: Re: Shred Whole Drive
Post by: Pondus on September 25, 2017, 12:07:28 PM

From the info here it seems able to erase hole drive  https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB44#idt_402

also see  https://help.avast.com/en/av_free/17/privacydatashredder.html

Title: Re: Shred Whole Drive
Post by: bob3160 on September 25, 2017, 10:29:35 PM

Data Shredder leaves you drive formatted while removing all of it's information
It does it in such a way that it becomes virtually impossible to recover any of the erased information from that drive.
That's a simple explanation.
It isn't fast but, it's thorough.