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Corrupted Files? Wipe data on NTFS hard drive file system

December 22, 2007 by Amit Bhawani 4 Comments

Do you have corrupted files on your computer? Are you always feeling insecure about the data on your computer? First you need to check out the corrupt system files on your computer for impaired files or reinstall your windows or may be get a new hard disk drive because of all this frustration.


You can do a quick scan disk on your computer and find out the corrupted files by running :
Start > Run > CMD > Run the command Chkdsk
The inbuilt PC scan disk utility will scan the complete file structure of your hard disk and give you a report of corrupted files.

Check Disk Hard Disk Drive

Next option is to Wipe off all your data on your Hard disk drive and get a clean HDD with no corrupted sectors. The most proved fact is that you need to Wipe off your hard disk drive 7 times before you get a real clean HDD and this can make sure that no one can recover your data.

Hard drive can be erased using tools like hard drive erasers , Kill Disk, WipeDrive or else just run FDisk which will clean your HDD completely and you can reinstall your OS Later.

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About Amit Bhawani

My name is Amit Bhawani and here I like to share my internet/tech experience with my online readers. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram at @AmitBhawani

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  1. shrekkk says

    June 27, 2008 at 10:23 am

    Very nice article. Formatting doesn’t erase of wipe your drive completely. Data recovery software can restore it again so you need a drive wipe software which completely erase your data by overwriting hard drive.

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