EraseFreeSpace.wsf A script that fills a drive with blank files to overwrite all the free space. Copyright (C) 2005 Shailesh N. Humbad https://www.somacon.com/ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: 1. Microsoft Windows Script Version 5.6 http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/webdev.asp INSTRUCTIONS 1. Copy the script to the drive you want to fill up. 2. Run the script by double-clicking on it. NOTES * This script should not be used on the system drive (usually C:). * The blank files will be created in "X:\EraseFreeSpaceBlankFiles". * After the script completes, you may optionally delete the blank files. * If you stop and restart the script without deleting the blank files, it will continue where it left off. * The script will show space left, estimated time left, and write speed. You can use this script as a crude disk write speed benchmark! * This script will fill the drive with files containing zeros. Since most disk drives have areas of reserved storage space, no guarantee is made that all information on the disk will be overwritten.