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    Can't Get Eraser to Erase

    I guess it's goodby to my old friend Eraser
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    Can't Get Eraser to Erase

    Apparently no one here knows. When you can't get an answer here where does one go?
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    Can't Get Eraser to Erase

    I'm trying to erase everything on this drive. It was my main C: drive before being replaced. Because I had seen Eraser fail to erase in the past I decided to do a test. I told it to erase a folder named Windows.old. It worked on it for about 5 minutes, drive light flashing the entire time...
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    Two Issues Erasing an Entire Drive

    I ran Eraser on an entire drive overnight and much of it remained (many files and folders). So, I did as you suggested . Then I tried to run it on the same drive again and, best I can tell, nothing has changed. It finished in about 10 minutes. When I checked many files and folders still...
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    gibberish folders and files after erasing unused disk space

    Re: gibberish folders and files after erasing unused disk sp This post was made just before yours and I also have these gibberish folders with files in them. They're some of the folders left after I tried to erase an entire disk. But, mine aren't all nonsense names, many are the original...
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    Two Issues Erasing an Entire Drive

    I'm trying to erase several drives before throwing them away. I downloaded today and am using the latest version. I observed these issues when using it on the first drive: 1 After Eraser had finished, all of the folders in the root directory were still there. They were mostly (but not all)...
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    Won't Erase Files on Drive D:

    Thanks for your reply. Yes, that gives an elaborate procedure for doing it. But, I use Eraser on individual files selectively and at various times using the right click menu. To have to follow that procedure each time I delete a file is more than I hope to do.
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    Won't Erase Files on Drive D:

    I just installed Win7 last week after using Eraser on XP for years. I have three hard drives C:, D: & F: Eraser will erase files on C: and F: but will not erase anything on D: Each time it says, 'Erased with errors' (or words like that), but in fact nothing was erased. The problem seems to...
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