Recent content by silicondeath

Yeah I always had the force unlock option disabled, instead I did a chkdsk from the command prompt with the /f paramater because it will then give you the option of dismounting the volume which automatically drops all open file handles. There's also nothing but data on these disks (no...

Ya well I'll give you some more info so hopefully one day someone can figure this out! * Drives recently passed a basic chkdsk and had no bad blocks last I checked. * One drive is on external USB, another one I am currently doing is internal SATA * Both 1TB, NTFS, basic (not dynamic) single...

Some more info: Since I checked at about 9:00 this morning it seems to have completed about another 15% in > 12 hours. That's what I mean about it getting slower and slower. I guess it's possible that the progress indicator is lying somewhat, but for this kind of operation it should be easy to...

Hi, I haven't found much useful information to explain this behaviour, so hopefully someone here has an idea. I am using 6.0.8 on Windows XP, I am shredding a 1TB HD, which contains about 700gb of data on it. I started the job in explorer by right-clicking the drive letter, and chosing "Eraser"...