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Data recovered but HDD corrupt, how delete files before sending to HP?
My HP Pavilion's HDD is under warranty & I have to send in the old drive. I want to delete sensitive text and data files. I mounted the drive as external to another Win7 laptop and used TestDisk to recover partitions and then recover my data, which I've already safely copied. TestDisk says that my System and Recovery partitions have bad MFT and MFT Mirror that can't be fixed. So I doubt I can access the files at all if I put the HDD back in the notebook, with a bad file system.
I want to delete the old user files in the C: partition and use CCleaner to write the space over with 0's and 1's. But Win7 in my new laptop can't "see" the C: drive - it shows 2 partitions on the external (Recovery & HP Tools), but 2 don't show up -- System and C: are hidden in a general "F:" disk. I can't access the drive/partition from Win7. I don't know why Recovery partition shows when it has corrupt MFT and C: won't show when it has good MFT.
The files can be individually listed within TestDisk application and a partition can be wiped but I don't want to screw up my warranty so need to just delete folders and files and then clean up. How can I do that?
Thanks.
(C and E are the new laptop; local disk F is the part of the external corrupt HDD that is not accessible but contains that HDD's System and C: partitions and G and H are on the external as well)