Re: The Bleeding Drive

No matter what you do, if your wife finds a SINGLE picture of your ex-wife on your hard disk, you will probably be screwed for a long time. Using deletion software will destroy some traces but given the seriousness of the situation, such as your own marriage at risk, you need 100% safety. As someone mentioned above, use full disk encryption, this is what I use. Truecrypt is free and can do this, but it needs to be FULL DISK encryption, including your OS, and then do not be stupid enough to let your computer running while you are away because the hard disk could be read. If for some reason you can not use full disk encryption, then I propose these other two solutions. Assuming you have your external device encrypted with Truecrypt, you can load a live CD that has Truecrypt and read its contents with the live CD, this will leave zero tracks on your computer. You could use Ubuntu Privacy Remix for this (https://www.privacy-cd.org/) or PartedMagic (http://partedmagic.com/) they both have Truecrypt included. I advise you use PartedMagic because UBPR can not browse the internet, forget that PartedMagic is mainly for partitions, it has more uses. Another choice is to install VirtualBox and store a virtual operating system inside an encrypted container, then use that operating system for internet browsing and access files. But you will need lots of RAM (maybe +3GB) for this, and a fairly powerful computer. The trick is that all the data remains will be left on the virtual operating system and not on Windows, and the virtual OS will be stored encrypted. But then a system crash could change this, Windows has a dump file enable by default. Full disk encryption is the way to go really.