Recent content by mr-b

So you're saying that just because it's not possible to obtain "an accurate estimate" (an oxymoron if ever I heard one) then the valid problem of not knowing what's happening to the progress of an erase task should not be even considered? So you prompted me to look for some demo videos of...

I agree this is possibly the most frustrating issue with Eraser. I used it years ago and recall the same issue applied then, so was very disappointed to see that nothing has apparently changed with v6.2.0.2970. Yes, as the post the above states, drive size, connection and erase characteristics...

Tx for the reply. I understand that there are these other components involved with the task, but what really threw me was that the Total progress bar didn't seem very linear i.e. it finished soon after it had got to 48% (which had already taken quite a few hours). I also erased a 20Gb drive and...

Hi I'm new to Eraser and am rather confused about what the different progress bars mean during an Erase. I wanted to erase a USB 750GB drive and have formatted it so that virtually all space is unused. Eraser is set to write 1 pass of pseudorandom data to unused space. During the erase task...