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Have you tried wiping the drive (Zero it with a freespace erase), saving a new file , erasing that and trying to recover? Recoverable files are often either old temp files or files still in the recycle bin.

Hi Evgeny, You have our permission to use the logo for Npackd. Garrett

Currently Joel is busy in college and I'm working on other things. Eraser has not been forgotten. At the moment we have a plan to update the website to use WordPress so we can create articles etc on the various repeat questions we get here which sucks up time etc. Development has stopped for...

Check old messages on the forum which explains how you can get this situation.

The issue seems to be a DLL registration conflict , can you check your windows event log and see if there are any messages produced when eraser crashes?

Eraser 5.x used MFC framework and was pure C++ . We migrated to .Net to keep up with UI changes in windows. At this point any change would involve major effort, its better to concentrate on bug fixing the current .Net version.

Are there any messages in the windows event log?

We do have a dos command line erase version but if you still have the install disks why not wipe the whole drive and reinstall?

You can use eraser to run a freespace erase, just empty the recycle bin first.

Best option is to empty the recycle bin and run a free space erase.

Have you tried uninstalling then reinstall 5.8.8 and uninstall it after a reboot. Then install the latest version?

You expect an instant response - the forum is run by volunteers, please be patient. Eraser works and you can test it yourself. >>are easily recoverable by Recuva etc There are many reasons a file could be 'recovered' - An undelete app is running protecting files from removal - Older...

Did you try the freespace erase again and let it complete?

Try to empty the recycle bin and then run a freespace erase.

have you run a chksdk on the drive? how is it formatted?

Joel is busy with his studies for the moment. We will be reviewing all the outstanding issues soon and working on a new release.

We have yet to test in win 8 and any updates to win8 will be later this year.

No issue with license, Its just about getting the time and resources to do it

You need to do a freespace erase

Eraser is digitally signed, I suspect your problem was some plugin crashing. Windows update can sometimes fix this.