Deleting emails from hard drive

[cotaka]

OK, I have looked over previous posts and still am unsure how to permanently
delete specific emails from hard drive w/o wiping hard drive clean or writing
over ALL emails over and over. The iolo company's "System Mechanic" software
tech says that you CAN pick and choose which emails that were 'deleted' in
OUTLOOK to truly permanently delete, but that you needed to learn from
Microsoft how to find the registry [?] on the hard drive for emails - then
the "incenerator" option of the software is used to delete 'forever' the
email in question w/o deleting all of the others. They could not help me w
the specific steps to 'find' these deleted emails on Windows XP OUTLOOK 2003
- does this make sense and/or can you help?

 

[Gordon]

OK, I have looked over previous posts and still am unsure how to
permanently
delete specific emails from hard drive w/o wiping hard drive clean or
writing
over ALL emails over and over. The iolo company's "System Mechanic"
software
tech says that you CAN pick and choose which emails that were 'deleted' in
OUTLOOK to truly permanently delete, but that you needed to learn from
Microsoft how to find the registry [?] on the hard drive for emails - then
the "incenerator" option of the software is used to delete 'forever' the
email in question w/o deleting all of the others. They could not help me w
the specific steps to 'find' these deleted emails on Windows XP OUTLOOK
2003
- does this make sense and/or can you help?

Hmmm. You seem a bit paranoid! If you shift-delete emails, then compact the
pst file it is QUITE difficult to undelete them. Certainly a casual snooper
wouldn't know how.
What you need to work out is this. If someone stole your HDD and took it to
a specialist data recovery company, they would be able to re-create a great
deal of deleted data even if you'd re-formatted the HDD. So, are you being
paranoid?