Recent content by Eusebius

I finally got the scandisk to work by using a program called "End it all," with which one can shut down running applications Ive never heard of. However, even after the scan Eraser still has trouble with some--but not all (as I said in the original post)--file names. Thanks very much for...

I simply cannot get the "thorough" scandisk to work...it chugs away for three hours, then starts all over again with some message about starting ten times. I use ctrl.+alt.+del. to shut off all programs, but the scandisk still hangs. Anyway, I know this hasnt much to do with Eraser, except...

Thanks for your reply. If by "running scandisk" you mean the quick scan, that has already been run (for example, following a computer crash) several times. But Eraser still does not erase certain file names. If you mean the thorough scan, I shall try it in a few days when I have some...

Its great that there is now this forum! Sometimes Eraser tries ten times to erase the file name (after erasing the file itself), then reports "failed to clean directory entries from driveC. Gave up after several attempts." Why does this happen? This happens usually with files that I have...