Free Space Wipe

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I ran 1 pass wipe of the free space (89% of 950GB) and after it was completed it showed that I had only 169MB left or 0%.

What?? I found what appear to be fixes on youtube. But…I’d rather have them from a trusted source.

Many thanks!

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  1. Why did you wipe free space?
    Unless you are selling your pc or replacing the HDD there is no need to wipe free space.
    I never wipe free space as I use my laptop I let it just write over what was previously there.

  2. What software did you use to wipe free space?

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I had some documents that I wanted to make sure were gone. I’m not sure of how it actually works but I don’t use my computer enough to make sure that it would be written over anytime soon. I am old, cautious and paranoid.

I used Avast.

Your post didn’t include a fix. Mmmm, why?

Thanks

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What is taking up the diskspace ?

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Sorry, I don’t know. Worse yet, I don’t even know to how find the answer you’ve asked for without some instructions.

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Second Reply.

Ok, I found where to look for the information. 820GB of the used space is called (Files at Root Drive) and was created
today, 11-12-2016. Can I delete this and recover the space or do I do something else?