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You dont give up easy :) Maybe you are David?

the windows UAC is probably blocking eraser on startup in the registry editor navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers] create a key C:\Program Files\Eraser\Eraser.exe and the value of ~ RUNASINVOKER RUNASADMIN reboot and let me know if...

can you check if there exists these settings in the registry [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Eraser] @="{BC9B776A-90D7-4476-A791-79D835F30650}"

This seems like a hardware issue or windows update. Have you applied the latest windows updates first? What happens when you remove some external drives?

Yes you need to do a full disk erase

The issue here is that windows still thinks the MSI file exists . I think you will have to delete the entries in the registry

Such a big disk will take a very long time, use the single pass erase if its a modern drive.

You should download the 5.x versions from sourceforge

Eraser tasks are stored in a file with the extension ersy have a look at this link: created a constant program exception are you able to edit task list?

This seems like it encounters a locked file - can you read the windows event log for the crash and report what is said

Cannot repeat this , tried on a fresh Win 10 machine just now . Unfortunatly I don't have Win 7 any more. Have you tried older versions of Eraser?

This could be difficult to do as you can still erase whole directories with file erase. You are warned before proceeding - Why do you see this as insufficient ?

There is a CLI built in you could try In the command window navigate to C:\Program Files\Eraser and run Eraser help to see what is available Have you tried this?

can you right click on the installer and select run as administrator?

It it was running before hibernation it will carry on after the PC resumes. External drives will be an issue as these have to reconnect so dont rely on this as a guaranteed erasure.