Why you should wipe MFT free space
MFT (Master File Table) is a reserved space on NFTS disks which contains information about all files and folders located within the disk. Directory entries in FAT is the analog of MFT records on NTFS.
MFT is a special system file that contains file attributes which instruct the system how to deal with the file or folder associated with the corresponding record.
Deleting files using standard Windows operations, just marks corresponding entries in MFT (Directory entries for FAT) as unused, but this operation does not delete file content as well as correponding MFT records (on NFTS) / Directory entries (on FAT) such as deleted file names and other attributes.
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How to wipe MFT free space
If you are concerned about privacy and don't want your sensitive files to be recovered, you should permanently delete previously deleted files. To delete previously deleted files, you should wipe free space but this does not solve the problem with MFT records (Directory entries). To completely delete all traces of deleted files you should additionally wipe deleted file names stored in MFT.
Wipe MFT provides an easy solution to wipe MFT free space (Master File Table records) and Directory entries which store names, dates, size and other attributes of deleted files.
To wipe MFT free space (directory entries), select the disk(s) and click 'Wipe Deleted File Records'
In the program settings you can optionally select to 'Change deleted files to folders'.
How to wipe MFT free space
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