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sdelete

Securely delete file/directory from disk, or clean the free space on a volume/physical disk. More information: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/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