Win10 system uses the cipher command line to completely delete the hard disk file

In today's win10 system use tutorial, Xiaobian will focus on explaining the cipher command line tool that comes with the system. So, what is the role of the cipher command line tool? How to use the cipher command line tool? Xiaobian first revealed a little bit, cipher command line tool can help win10 system to effectively and completely delete the data in the hard disk, below, let's look at it together See the specific use of the win10 system cipher command line tool!

Enter CMD
What is the cipher command line tool?
cipher command line tool This function is in WinXP, Win7, Win8.1, Win10 exists, the system comes with a command line tool called cipher, its purpose is to use EFS encrypted file system to encrypt files. 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 and select Run as administrator.
2, enter the following command at the command prompt, enter the run:
cipher /w:C
The last letter "C"" represents the partition letter, as needed to modify. After that, you only need to wait patiently, as shown below:

Command prompt
To erase data, the tool will perform three tasks in sequence: first, overwrite the remaining space with 0x00, then overwrite with data 0xFF The remaining space is finally erased using random data. 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.