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If you have the disk to reinstall the OS, it would really be better to use DBAN to make sure nothing sensitive gets left in the registry or other hidden places... If that's not an option, though, I guess Eraser is probably the next best thing. Unfortunately, Eraser 6 requires .NET 3.5, which MS...

I haven't been keeping up with Eraser development for a while. So, I see that v6 is in the RC stage now. The announcement says that FAT erasures are not supported... does this mean all erase operations on FAT drives are unsupported, or only erasure of unused entries in the FAT itself? Do you...

I've seen this, too. I ran a free space wipe, and afterward, all the files located within a directory and its subdirectories were suddenly 0 bytes in size. The problem folder was compressed, so I thought maybe there was some conflict between Eraser's cluster tip erase and compressed files. I...

Go to My Computer, right-click on the drive in question, and select Properties. This will produce a dialog box with some information about the drive, including its file system.