Why Normal Deleting Fails: Secure Delete Files

Secure Deleting Files is a digital data destruction technique that prevents deleted data from being recovered by forensic or file recovery software. The Problem With Normal Deletion

When you delete a file normally and empty the Recycle Bin, the data is not actually erased. Your operating system simply deletes the “pointer” to that file and marks the storage space as “free space” available to be written over later. Until new data happens to be written over that exact spot, the original file remains fully intact and easily salvageable with free recovery tools. How Secure Deletion Works