Just discovered I have a large amount of no longer needed data in several .txt and .dat files. It amounts to several tens of gigabytes. My hard drive is not a T-Byte spinning disk but a 120 Gbyte solid state hard disk. Recovering this space seems like a good thing to do. However, I am not certain that merely moving it over to the recycle bin and then emptying the recycle bin really sends it out into the lumineferous aether to be lost and gone forever. Rather something deep within my soul tells me that Windows XP puts in some out of the way place within my SSD. My question is where does deleted data really go? If it is indeed stored in an out of the way place on the SSD, is there a software application available that will allow me to really rid my PC of this data?