Recent content by david23

Ah, no. One of the drives was formatted, then 'erase free space' was ran. After running Recuva a few -- 5 or 6 -- files were there as well as all the eraser junk files. They couldn't be read, despite what Recuva said, but I wanted the email header to vanish -- didn't want my enemy to find out...

Hi Just wanted to say thanks for this. I got everything wiped OK in the end. The drives were pretty well clear, though there were traces of one or two files left. Unfortunately one of those was an email that I wanted completely gone so I had to repeat. Filling the drive with meaningless files...

Actually it's traces of directory entries I'm most worried about. A long time ago, I erased a drive using Eraser 3 or something. When I ran Norton Undelete afterwards the files were all gone, but the names could be easily read. It's a serious thing for me, because there's just a chance someone...

Thanks DavidHB, Yes, that's pretty much what I wanted to know -- there's a page on this site says something like 'with Eraser 6, format then erase free space' so I wanted to see if my version was different. Having said that I decided I was in danger of running out of time (this machine being...

Before I ask my questions, please let me say this: I have a PC running Windows XP SP 2. Not SP 3. This is no place to go into why I won't install SP 3, so please spare me a dozen replies telling me to 'upgrade', because I won't. In a few weeks I'll have a new machine running Windows 7. Right...