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David and Joel moved on to other things. People put in time as volunteers and then move on in life.

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you will need admin rights to access the disk. Try setting this in the file properties to run as administrator

Do you get any error messages? What happens if you turn off TrendMicro? Try whitelisting eraser. Did you install the official version of Eraser i.e this

This version now recognises exFAT drives

you can do a freespace erase. Backup the machine first incase of mistakes

you cannot wipe the drive you are logged into best option would be to reinstall windows and then do a freespace erase

extract the MSI file for the desired architecture X86 or x64 and try that its a standard MSI file

can you upload the file here or PM me?

This is a permissions issue - i assume logged in as administrator it works? Eraser needs low level access to the drives.

It installs and works perfectly here - what is the sequence of events you are using to cause it to fail? Have you tried running as administrator?

Shutdown eraser and then right click on the exe and run as administrator - what happens?

Do you stiull have this issue? Eraser creates a task for each job and should delete any ad-hoc tasks once completed.

1 - install as normal 2 - no 3 - we would release a new version

Eraser has standard installer - you could capture the install or do a /Q and deploy Wiping the Recyclebin can be done via a script

I'll include USB keys in this answer. In a freespace erase eraser will first fill the drive and then erase the space, you would only need to use a 1 pass erase on a USB or SSD drive For SSD Read this article and this - You need to consider the age of the drive and whether you need to wipe...

Hi David, have you turned off your anti virus? Also, run chkdsk to see if there are any drive issues and delete the temp directory created by eraser.

The actual issue is that you are trying to erase directories locked by the OS. Probably DLL's in use in that directory. To wipe the C drive you really need to boot up with something like DBAN and wipe at the OS level.

the only way to do this currently is to use the commandline version and not have it in the tray i.e not loaded all the time

Eraser won't uninstall applications if that is what you mean. It can wipe the directories of those applications which is not a good idea as you now have an improperly uninstalled version of Office etc