Privacy – Use Disk Redactor to Remove Traces of Old Deleted File Data from your Drives
Posted by: Barry Cleave in Portable Freeware, tags: File Deletion, Freeware, Portable Application, Portable Freeware, PortableApps, Programs, Security, Software, Utilities, Windows, WIndows Vista, Windows XP
More About What it Does in Detail:
The Cezeo website gives the following details:
Disk Redactor is a WIPE utility that lets you securely erase any old ( deleted ) files and prevent them from being recovered. All your private sensitive insecurely erased information will be wiped from free unused space on your drives to ensure complete data destruction.
This is necessary because when you delete a file, it is not gone forever, and any file removed from the Recycle Bin can be easily recovered! The Windows delete function does not clear the space where the deleted file has been located but only marks an entry in the directory (folder) as deleted. All data and information about the file still remains on the disk and can be restored!
On running Disk Redactor the following screens and menus are provided:
This review will follow the usual format of presenting the majority of information as screenshots backed up by further information where necessary.
(click on any picture to enlarge where necessary)
Main Window
This provides access to the Cezeo website,
“help” via the Cezeo Disk Redactor page
an Options and a Wipe button
Options
As can be seen from the screenshot the Options are all grayed out. This happens in both XP and Vista. No explanation could be found on the Cezeo website which is frustrating 
Wipe
Clicking the Wipe button brings up a standard file/folder browser window. (You can select a folder but Disk Redactor ignores the folder and just wipes the disk)
Having selected the disk to wipe the program then shows a confirmation window:
Clicking Yes starts the wipe process and the Wipe button changes to “Cancel Wipe”
The message box at the bottom of the window displays appropriate messages and their is a progress bar above the message box:
Earlier Build
This is the main GUI from an earlier version of Disk Redactor with Options as checkboxes. These appear to “work” as the checkboxes can be ticked/unticked, although checking the background option made no obvious difference when wiping as the process priority was not changed. Maybe this is why options are grayed out on the current build as they don’t actually do anything
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December 1st, 2008 at 2:57 pm - Edit
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February 7th, 2009 at 9:26 am - Edit
well this is good info for me, thanks for sharing this !
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:26 am - Edit
Vote Privacy – Use Disk Redactor to Remove Traces of Old Deleted File
March 5th, 2009 at 8:03 pm - Edit
Awesome. I don’t know some of it before. Thank you very much.
March 24th, 2009 at 9:28 pm - Edit
Don’t bother with Disk Redactor, it does not work. To prove it get a copy of File Scavenger.
Create and erase whatever file you want. Use Disk Redactor to supposedly erase deleted
files. Then use File Scavenger to recover the deleted file. Sorry, folks, its more internet crapware.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:01 am - Edit
This is great news. I have removed several hard drives from old computers and am afraid to throw them away. This program should help with recycling e-waste.
April 12th, 2009 at 5:33 am - Edit
very nice post, very helpfull
May 20th, 2009 at 3:10 pm - Edit
Who needs this software? probably people dealing with sensitive data, i was looking for a software that recovers deleted files from recycle bin.
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June 21st, 2009 at 2:48 am - Edit
Yeah me too, is that totally safe!?
July 15th, 2009 at 10:47 pm - Edit
Whats about Get Data Back 4.0, usually i using this..
August 18th, 2009 at 4:37 am - Edit
if the note book be lost is very terrible
August 21st, 2009 at 4:58 am - Edit
It is good tool in terms of making your hard disk clean and your computer much effective, faster
August 27th, 2009 at 2:17 pm - Edit
Thanks for your useful trick who we can safe data back now..
September 14th, 2009 at 10:48 pm - Edit
thanks for very useful information
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October 4th, 2009 at 1:32 pm - Edit
It’s useful for me and my friends.Thanks you!
October 19th, 2009 at 9:14 pm - Edit
Thanks, I was searching for a shredder.
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:04 pm - Edit
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November 18th, 2009 at 2:58 am - Edit
Thanks for share..
November 24th, 2009 at 9:03 pm - Edit
Thanks for help, you do a great job
November 24th, 2009 at 9:04 pm - Edit
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December 24th, 2009 at 6:38 am - Edit
Very useful guidelines for recovering erased datas.Great work!
December 27th, 2009 at 1:58 pm - Edit
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January 4th, 2010 at 5:30 am - Edit
i will definate look into getting one cheers. Pete
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January 4th, 2010 at 5:31 am - Edit
I have removed several hard drives from old computers and am afraid to throw them away. This program should help with recycling e-waste.
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January 10th, 2010 at 8:08 pm - Edit
Previously erased files always takes so much data at hard disk, which reduce free space available. It’s important to have a software installed like the above.
January 12th, 2010 at 4:19 pm - Edit
Sounds like a pretty neat tool. I din’t actually realize files weren’t completely removed when deleting. How come the files are removed from the disk space then?
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January 17th, 2010 at 6:54 am - Edit
Well worth the read. Thanks for sharing this information. I got a chance to know about this.
January 18th, 2010 at 6:53 pm - Edit
This is certainly very useful to ensure that files that have not been securely deleted cannot be recovered.
February 8th, 2010 at 10:52 am - Edit
This program is very helpful, i thought about this issue but i didn’t think that such program exists unit i saw this one, and this tool is a free one, I’m gonna try this now.
February 12th, 2010 at 8:05 pm - Edit
thats a good news for all those who are having problems in deleting the old files on the hard disk
February 16th, 2010 at 12:11 am - Edit
A very good tool for someone who want to secure the data.
clasamente fotbal
February 19th, 2010 at 12:29 pm - Edit
Yes deleted means deleted. No traces should be left because unnecessary space will be utilized for that. Good job, this really a good post about the application.
February 20th, 2010 at 11:08 am - Edit
Amazingly and informative article …. I like it….
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February 25th, 2010 at 11:48 am - Edit
This application will definitely help clean up file data from old drives. Thanks for the info. I might need this application someday.
February 27th, 2010 at 6:01 pm - Edit
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March 8th, 2010 at 9:12 am - Edit
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March 16th, 2010 at 3:48 am - Edit
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