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By the way, I learned something else, too. I used the same fragmented setup with the 10 empty clusters between the fragments. I found that simply using Window XP Professional to overwrite the fragmented file with another file of the same size (= 2x cluster size) will not overwrite both...

Hi. Well, I did figure out a way to test if Eraser 5.82 does overwrite right-clicked fragmented files. I filled up a hard disk. I deleted 2 cluster-sized files separated from one another by 10 clusters or so. I wrote a file of size = 2 x clustersize. It went into those 2 clusters. I...

By the way, contig.exe is available here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 97428.aspx

Thanks for the help, but I am not convinced. By testing, I have found that, by default in Windows XP, the MFT record size is 1024 bytes and the cluster size is 4096 bytes. So, no file fragment can be in the MFT unless its size + the size of all it attributes < 1024 bytes. Also, Windows does...

Thanks for the replies. I feel somewhat reassured. But for my benefit, and for the benefit of others that read this forum, I need to ask: how do you know for sure? I would be convinced if someone posted a way to create that fragmented situation and then I tested Eraser on it. Or if someone...

I need some reassurance that Eraser really overwrites a fragmented file when invoked by a right-click. Consider this situation. File A is fragmented into 2 parts. The first part is immediately followed on the disk by file B. Then file B is deleted. If I now right click on file A and invoke...

When erasing the free space on a 250 GB external HDD connected by a USB port, eraser 5.8 completes, but gives these messages: "Failed to create a temporary file or directory. Erasing was not completed." and "Failed to erase file names from drive G:\, don't know why exactly." I am running...