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Message: <blockquote data-quote="6string" data-source="post: 1000519" data-attributes="member: 120039">Basically emptying the trash is hard enough to retrieve, especially if the computer has been used since emptying the trash, as overwriting has already occurred. Secure trash takes that a step further and overwrites on the spot.Going to the next level, reinstalling an OS, you can say goodbye to pretty much everything as far as Data Recovery of any sort goes, and erasing the hard drive before reinstalling the OS, there is really no chance of retrieving anything.Zeroing out a drive before installing an OS is pretty much overkill, and I think is something that should be left to banks, criminals such as pedophiles, secret agents, etcThe reason obviously that even the smallest bit of incriminating fragmented information found by the FBI, CIA, KGB, etc found may be all that is required.</blockquote>