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Best (preferably free) tool to wipe deleted files on an NTFS filesystem [duplicate]

Best (preferably free) tool to wipe deleted files on an NTFS filesystem [duplicate]

I am looking for a tool that wipes (overwrites) unlinked files; preferably something that runs as a kind of disk formatter, overwriting the entire unused portion of the harddrive partition while leaving everything else intact.

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Guest [Entry]

"If you run Sysinternal's SDelete with the -z argument, it will cleanse free space on the given drive.

sdelete -z c:

This is a good solution if you want to run as a batch file every so often, or if you just prefer a command line tool."