Shred pictures & video files from 32 GB Transcend SDHC card

I need to share a 32 GB Transcend SDHC card with my in law occasionally. How can I remove all pictures and images from it before sharing?

Regardless of what the camera manual says, when you delete images from a SDHC card, they aren’t really gone but still exist on your memory card. Even if you format the card, some of the content may remain and can be easily recovered using a photo recovery tool.

The best solution for you to remove the pictures and images from your SDHC card before sharing with your in law is to use Remo Shredder that helps you to securely and permanently shred private data from your SDHC card. It shreds the deleted data leaving no traces of sensitive/critical data.
This privacy protection software protects your private data by completely shredding the files, folders, and unused space from a logical drive you specify, beyond recovery.

Easy to use
Remo Shredder has a user friendly interface that includes several on screen instructions and context sensitive help.

Remo Shredder Software is extremely easy to use where in you need to just select the data you wish to shred, select your shred standard and the data is gone forever.

A word of caution
Before wiping or overwriting files, make sure that’s what you really want to do. There is no way of recovering files once you have permanently erased using this specialized Remo Shredder software.

Steps to permanently shred pictures and video files beyond recovery

Remo Shredder offers safe erasing of data beyond recovery by overwriting the data several times based on the shredding method selected.

Attach the memory card to the system where software is installed using a card reader. With this a new drive letter gets assigned to the memory card which further helps you to shred the pictures and images using the software.

Follow the simple steps mentioned below to permanently erase your pictures and images form your SDHC card using Remo Shredder:

Step 1: Launch Remo Shredder main application either from desktop or from program menu. As soon as the application is launched, it starts loading the drives in the left tree pane. The main window of Remo Shredder is as shown in Figure a.

Figure a: Application Main Window

Step 2: All the contents of the drive are listed in the left pane of the main window. Select the memory card that contains the file(s) to be shredded. After selecting the files to be shredded, double click on them to add them into the ’shredding zone’ or drag and drop them into the shredding zone. The application adds the selected file(s) into shredding zone as shown in Figure b.

Figure b: Selected data in Shredding zone

Step 3: Next you need to select the shredding method. REMO Shredder provides nine different shredding methods that you can choose from. To select the shredding methods, click on the Shredding Options button in the toolbar. This drop down menu lists the different shredding methods, and you need to select any one of these methods, as shown in Figure c.

Figure c: Selection of Shredding Methods

Step 4: Once you select the shredding method and the data you wish to permanently erase, click on Shred file(s) and folder(s) button listed in the tool bar, to shred the file(s) / folder(s) listed in shredding zone.

The files in the shredding zone will be overwritten by different patterns depending on the shredding method selected. Once the process is completed, a message pops up intimating the same.

Once the pictures and images erased using Remo Shredder cannot be recovered using any data recovery tool.

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