Once the data is securely deleted 2, 5, 18, whatever number of times you set it to overwrite, does the filename itself get wiped from the MFT as well?
Hi,
i can´t anwer you that, but this tool seems to overwrite the MFT entry:
technet.microsoft.com/de-de/sysi ... 97443.aspx
you could easily make a button using the command line parameters for extra secure file deletion.
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 97443.aspx
in english, sorry.
Excellent find. Thank you.
At the end of the secure-delete Opus renames the file to a very long, random name which (in theory) overwrites the name so it cannot be recovered. (In reality that may depend on the filesystem in use.)
Note that the filename will still appear in Opus's log, if you have the log enabled and set to record deletions. So you might want to clear (or disable) the log, too.
(It'll also appear in the separate Undo Log, which is never explicitly saved to disk but could still be written to the page file.)
Ah, so in theory, barring the logs, any record of the file itself is gone. I'll test this.
Thank you.