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...
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...
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...
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)...
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.
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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