

Generally: as in if you bought a pc and had on it nothing but your secret document and repeatedly opened this one doc and saved it again.

Modern drives are high density and are so full of data from the OS and all your applications that deciding between magnetic 'ghosts' of a randomly erased file and real data on a drive that has been wiped would ‘generally’ take massive effort. Recovery like encryption is based on time and money and a battle between the incompetence of all parties involved. You are perfectly safe from the average data thief using this option.

Quick erase will prevent recovery of your data. >To rephrase based on your answer, does the quick erase >option "properly overwrite data" well enough to foil an average data >thief?
