The whole process took about an hour, and our computer's performance slowed down so much that we couldn't do anything else. During our tests, we opted to check our C drive and to replace the file sectors with random characters. Second, we had to choose what to do with the deleted file space: replace with random characters, spaces, or random digits. First, it asked us to select which disk we wanted to run the program. Prevent Restore comes with a wizard that makes it especially easy to get started. We were able to bypass it and move on to the user interface, but it was a mark against the program. It worked as promised, but it took a long time to do its job.Įach time we tried to access the program through the desktop icon, we received an error message.
As its name suggests, Prevent Restore keeps others from restoring deleted files by filling in unused sectors on your hard drive.