Is it safe to wipe unused space?
Yes, it is always safer to wipe unused space. Shredding free disk space ensures that deleted data emptied from recycle bin, formatted partitions, lost files or its fragments are erased permanently beyond recovery. This is the reason why it is always recommended that you periodically perform free disk space shredding so that sensitive data is completely erased and your data is securely deleted.
As deleting a file does not erase the actual data of the file. Until that space is overwritten by a new file or data, it can be restored easily using undelete software which are specially designed to recover such deleted data. This means that the data is still available on the disk and is liable to data theft. Therefore, after deleting files, you need to run such a program to ensure that the data of those files are completely erased.
Remo Shredder will completely erase files from your disk, by overwriting the portion on the hard drive that was previously allocated to the files several times without the possibility of recovery by any file recovery software or hardware methods.
Steps to be followed to wipe unused disk space using Remo Shredder
Step ' 1
Launch the Remo Shredder Main application either from start menu or from desktop shortcut. As soon as the application is launched, it starts loading the drives in the left tree pane as shown in Figure a.
Figure a: Application Main Window
Please Note: You can press Esc button to cancel loading
Step ' 2
To shred free disk space, click on 
'Shred free disk space' button at the toolbar or launch from Shred -> Shred free disk space in Menu bar. As you click the button, a window to select drives is displayed as shown in figure b.
Figure b: Select logical drive
Step ' 3
Select a logical drive on which free disk space has to be shredded and click on OK button to proceed
The software starts overwriting the free disk space with selected patterns as shown in Figure c.
Figure c: Progress Window
Once the Shredding process is completed, a confirmation message pops up as shown below.
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