Recent content by Beans Baker

Could this be Kaspersky-related? The OP mentions having Kaspersky and having run a "scandisk." Well, Kaspersky has had a long-running issue with KAV affecting the running of chkdsk and (allegedly) causing serious problems with some (very few) computers. For more information, see this thread...

Since I have Vista Ultimate, I don't need Ghost. Vista Ultimate incorporates a "Complete PC Backup" feature that I use regularly to backup my whole system to DVDs. It works extremely well and I have used it to restore my system quite a few times, always very quickly and with total success...

Since my "sensitive" stuff is very minimal, I'll probably just continue erasing such stuff whenever I wish to get rid of it. (I like the free Cryptainer LE for encrypting sensitive files when they're not in use.) Then, due to the Shadow Copy issue, I'll probably completely turn off System...

I have no problem with erasing individual files or their file names. I ONLY have a problem with erasing file names when erasing unused disk space, although I can still do so in Safe Mode. Anyway, on a tangent to that, you earlier raised the issue of whether one can even effectively erase all...

Re: System Restore Well, in my case, running 32-bit Vista Ultimate, as I said before: "I turned off my System Restore, rebooted, checked to make sure I no longer had any shadow copies or restore points, ran Eraser on the unused space of my C drive, and again, got exactly the same error...

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Eraser (5.84), but still have exactly the same problem. I find it interesting that no one else seems to have this problem with Eraser and Vista, which indicates that it is not a bug in Eraser, but something unique to my system. I have a carefully maintained...

Well, Overwriter, I did as you suggested. I disabled the eleven startup items (as listed by my jv16PowerTools), restarted my computer to reload Windows without any of those programs starting up, ran Eraser on the unused space of my C drive, and got exactly the same error message. And I've...

Ah, yes. I see. So the possible suspects are just the programs that startup with Windows. I will consider experimenting with this possibility. And as to shadow copies, as I said to turn off creation of shadow copies, I have to also turn off creation of restore points, which I am not real...

I am not sure why you feel being able to erase file names in Safe Mode indicates a problem with some program that I've installed "since Vista," which in my case, would be a very large number of programs and there would be no way in which to determine which one it was (or had been). Why do you...

Thanks for your interest. The only way that I know of for turning off the creation of shadow copies (which are copies of old versions of one's files) is to turn off System Protection, which also turns off the creation of restore points, and I really don't want to do that, because I would lose...

Garrett?

Yes. I am using Avira AntiVir, Comodo BOClean, Spybot S&D (tea timer), and Zone Alarm Free firewall. But even with all of them shut down or disabled, I get the same message when attempting to erase directory entries on any one of my hard drive's several partitions. Eraser always says it failed...

Yes, this is a one-user-account PC.

"If you want to securely delete and overwrite the files in the recycle bin using Eraser then right click the recycle bin and choose “Erase Recycle Bin”. Eraser will then use the pointers that windows created to find the actual file on the disk. The area where the actual file is will be...

I am running 32-bit Vista. When I erase the unused disk space on C, after doing so, Eraser produces an error message stating it could not delete the file names from the drive and that it "don't know why exactly." Is this a known bug, or . . . ?