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    Wipe Free Space and MFT - Remaining drive contents affected?

    Re: Wipe Free Space and MFT - Remaining drive contents affec Hi David, Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense. I was curious if Eraser automatically takes entries out of the MFT when you do a regular erase on a file or do I have to wipe free space each time I want that info gone. I...
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    Freespace Wipe - "Access to the path..." is denied

    Hi Joel - I was reading this thread because I ran into the same error with the System Volume Folder not having the cluster tips erased. I was wiping free space on a drive and received this error. All the error means is that the cluster tips in/around that folder weren't erased, right? The rest...
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    Wipe Free Space and MFT - Remaining drive contents affected?

    Re: Wipe Free Space and MFT - Remaining drive contents affec Actually, I just thought of something. I have a drive on which I wanted to erase the free space but was waiting for your MFT answer first. So while I was waiting I was copying info from that drive to another just to have a backup (in...
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    Wipe Free Space and MFT - Remaining drive contents affected?

    Re: Wipe Free Space and MFT - Remaining drive contents affec Oh ok good to know. I didn't know you could go in and delete individual MFT entries. So I'm assuming Eraser looks for the files marked for deletion and wipes them out of the MFT? Pretty neat Thanks for the quick reply! Is there any...
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    Wipe Free Space and MFT - Remaining drive contents affected?

    I'm not sure if this belongs in support - I just want to know about wiping the free space on a drive. Let's say it's drive that is used as storage/backup and I have many files I want to keep. I have already gone through and deleted files I don't want (by pressing delete key). So now I want to...
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