Ok quick update.
Ran Eraser the second time through and checked with Recuva. It is still finding over 1000 files, however they are now random letter and number files names. This leads me to believe these are just files Eraser has written to the hard drive during overwriting.
The drive...
Thanks for the response David.
The Eraser log didn't seem to say anything about the task. It completed as normal.
System restore was not enabled on my external drive.
I have now deleted and recreated a simple volume in Disk Management and am re-running Eraser under the Pseudorandom (1 pass)...
Hi all
I'm new to Eraser and Recuva so please forgive me if I've overlooked something.
I cleared a 320gb external harddrive today in preparation to pass on to a friend.
I formatted the drive (under Windows 7 64) and then ran Eraser - unused disk space using British HGM (1 pass).
This took...
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