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sdelete — Securely delete file/directory from disk, or clean the free space on a volume/physical disk. More in

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Problem

How to use the sdelete command: Securely delete file/directory from disk, or clean the free space on a volume/physical disk. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete>.

Solution

sdelete — Securely delete file/directory from disk, or clean the free space on a volume/physical disk. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete>.

Delete files with 3 [p]asses:
sdelete -p 3 {{path\to\file1 path\to\file2 ...}}


Delete folders and its [s]ubdirectories with 1 pass (default):
sdelete -s {{path\to\directory1 path\to\directory2 ...}}


Clean the free space of volume D: with 3 [p]asses:
sdelete -p 3 D:


Clean the free space with [z]eros of physical disk 2, which should not contain any volumes to be cleaned:
sdelete -z 2

Code Snippets

Delete files with 3 [p]asses

sdelete -p 3 {{path\to\file1 path\to\file2 ...}}

Delete folders and its [s]ubdirectories with 1 pass (default)

sdelete -s {{path\to\directory1 path\to\directory2 ...}}

Clean the free space of volume D: with 3 [p]asses

sdelete -p 3 D:

Clean the free space with [z]eros of physical disk 2, which should not contain any volumes to be cleaned

sdelete -z 2

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