"Sure Delete" Fills Up Hard Drive With 300 Gigs...

[MetalEd]

Hey everyone I've heard a lot of good things about Sure Delete, which is used to delete files from your computer permanently (I'm really paranoid about identity theft). When I used it, I just expected it to clear these deleted files from my system so they couldn't be brought back, but what actually happened was much different. I came back to my computer to find that my 400 gigabyte hard drive that was originally less than 90 gigabytes full now has 397 gigabytes used and runs at an astoundingly slow speed. The readme for the program claims that if such a case occurs to delete the sdel.tmp files in the directory cleared, which in my case was C:. Unfortunately, they don't exist there, or anywhere else. I've done over 15 full system scans, used the Windows XP Disk Cleanup tool 3 times, as well as 2 3rd-party disk cleaners, attempted a System Restore (Which didn't work), tried to email the makers of Sure Delete (Which returned an error every time), re-ran the program twice, and uninstalled the program, restarted my computer, and checked again. Nothing has done anything. If you wanna check out Sure Delete, you can find it at:
http://www.wizard-industries.com/
I'm also using Windows XP, if you didn't catch that already


I'd be extremely grateful to anyone who could help me!

EDIT: Sorry, somehow I titled it "Soft Delete" rather than "Sure Delete"

[Robin Hood]

i dunno..maybe weird sorta oa keyloggers/viruses? i wouldnt logon rs for a while til this sorts out 2 be safe

[MetalEd]

It's not a keylogger or a virus. It's an award-winning file shredder that I downloaded from their official site. I just have terrible luck with.....everything.

[Oysto]

Erm, now would be a good time to reformat your computer. I do it every month .

[Vista]

Originally Posted by sithlord5666

i dunno..maybe weird sorta oa keyloggers/viruses? i wouldnt logon rs for a while til this sorts out 2 be safe

I would not give a damn about RS if my computer was that mucked up, and I'm sure he doesn't either.

But if everything is failing use the OS disk to completely redo windows.
if you don't have that and want to stick with windows have fun paying out for another lame OS disk.
But if you want to be cheap just order a free Linux OS.

[MetalEd]

I worked it out without reformatting (Thank God), but thanks guys.