Using DirSnoop
Yeah, you use Windows Washer, and
Eraser and you feel confident enough that the files you erased were gone. Well, that's NOT 100% true and Dir Snoop can prove it to you. Did you also know files leave "ghost" images of themselves even after you move them from one drive to another?
Dir Snoop is a
wonderful freeware that can be used to:
- Verify the effectiveness of file/disk wiping programs
- Recover erased files
- Purge erased file names from directory structure
- Permanently wipe traces of "ghost" files(files that were deleted long
ago) and individual clusters with 4-pass wiping function
- Search, group, and sort files by name, date, cluster, size, and
attributes
- Search and View files and raw clusters, the raw directory structures
and file clusters for content
- View the file allocation table (FAT)
- Map files and directories to cluster numbers
You can get it from
briggsoft.com and the site has screen
captures too!
Dir Snoop is very easy to use.
Its window is devided into 2 frames, the left is the
Curent dir (for the complete dir tree) and right frame is the
Global dir with a list of all the files and
folder in the chosen drive or folder. It has ONLY 4 options on its tools
bar- File, Current, Global and Help.
File
has the
Purge option, which is to trully delete the
remainds of ghost files (NOTE: The "ghost" files appear
in red),
the Unerase option will restore recently erased
fies ,
the Wipe option will securely erase files,
Print List and Select all are self
eplanatory
Current
Add files to global list
Search and Add files to global list
Refresh current dir
View drives spec
Global
remove files and clear list
Help
of course has all the help
files in case you need instructions