Win10 uses the cipher tool to completely delete the hard disk file.

In the Win10 system, when you delete the hard disk file, be sure to delete it completely, leaving no traces. So is there any way to completely delete the hard disk files? Here Xiaobian recommends that you use the cipher command line tool that comes with the Win10 system.

This feature is available in WinXP, Win7, Win8.1, Win10. The system comes with a command line tool called cipher. Its purpose is to encrypt files using the EFS encrypted file system. However, this tool also has an additional feature that can be used to erase the remaining space on the hard disk to safely delete deleted files contained in the remaining space. The tool is very simple to use.

Erase all remaining space on the hard drive:

1. Enter CMD in the Start menu or Taskbar search box, find the command prompt in the search results, right click, select Administrator Identity running.

2, enter the following at the command prompt, the transport run:

cipher /w: C

last letter & ldquo; C & rdquo; Representative Partition drive letter, you can modify it as needed. After only need to wait, as shown below:

is the erasing data, the tool sequentially perform three tasks: first, to cover the remaining space with 0x00 and 0xFF data covering the remaining space, Finally, use random data for erasing. It takes some time to complete the whole process, depending on the amount of free space on the hard disk.

Don't think that emptying the recycle bin file is all right. Under the Win10 system, you must remember to delete the files thoroughly, especially some privacy files.