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Thanks for the clarification Joel. Actually the intersting thing to my mind about this entire over-writing debate is the sheer absence of consensus. Peter Gutmann complains his 35-pass 'rule' is chanted like a religious mantra. At RadSoft they say all the DoD rules and others are out of date and...

I've installed MRU Blaster. It certainly allows you to keep on top of things. Not too sure about Spybot. I ran it for some time two or three years back but got rid after it started missing a lot of stuff. Also I've been reading documents over at RadSoft, mostly on the XP system, which from the...

Thank you. But what is a hex editor please? As I said I'm not very bright with regard to computers! I'll try 'MRU Blaster'. I've never heard of it before. CCleaner to dump everything onto the hard-drive and Eraser to overwrite it eh? Makes sense. So to the advise on TrueCrypt. That's Acronis I...

Hello Overwriter, I'm relieved to hear it. Thanks once again for guiding me through this. A last couple of things: 1) Can you suggest a good file recovery programme (preferably free but I'll pay for a reputable software) just to test things properly? 2) Are you familiar with Evidence...

Hello Overwriter, Here's what I did. I ran SpinRite on Level 2 and got a clean bill of health. I then followed your instructions re CCleaner and the latest version of Eraser. I forgot to exit running programmes however. To be honest the only one I could have exited was Evidence Eliminator...

Hello Overwriter, Many thanks for this. I'll try the single pass you suggest. As for the central issue I can only say that I believe my hard-drive to be in full working order. It's just come back from the engineer's as a matter of fact, this after the whole system locked up and it wouldn't...

Hello, Can anyone help please? So far I’ve only used Eraser to delete files manually. However I just had it over-write the unusued space on my 160 Gb hard drive (at DoD7 setting). It began with a 'cluster tips' reading in the bottom left corner then changed to 'overwriting'. This went on TEN...