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Where did you get the download from? the software is digitally signed and only the version from sourceforge should be used.

Eraser will wipe the cluster tips of the files during freespace erase.

Eraser will rename the file i.e erase the filenames as well.

I think you are trying to do a 35 pass erase or something, 4 days seems excessive. Run one of the faster erase cycles like 1 pass as it should finish much quicker. Tere halso be a disk issue where it cannot read the drive and just gets stuck in a loop

if the disk is attached to your windows OS you might have permissions issues. The quick solution is to format the drive, then do a freespace erase and finally format it again. The last format is just to tidy up the file table.

Is this error on the screen or in the windows event log? Have you tried obvious things like running windows update? uninsall and delete %appdata%\local\eraser 6 then reinstall. What happens? If you go to program files in explorer and then eraser and execute the exe by dbl clicking on it do...

This seems like a bug in the update checker. Could you download and try this version: http://eraser.heidi.ie/download.php?id=292 Here I can erase with no internet or router attached. You should not have to make firewall changes as eraser will use standard browsing to determine if any updates...

Try turning off your virus scanner and see if that changes anything.

Unless you are giving the machine away just boot up with the XP disk and let it format the whole disk. To totally wipe the drive use DBAN.

By stopping eraser in mid task means the space used by the erasing process remains un deleted. If you run eraser freespace erase again and this time let it finish you should get the space back.

We moved to Eraser 6 and .Net because volunteers could not be found for the C++ version. Currently Joel is busy in university and I'm limited in the amount of time I can spend on the project. I do agree the .NET version is a lot less compact but that is the cost of progress. >>every version of...

The feedback is shown in the task manager, you can also start the task running immediatly. Areyou saying it queued the task and did nothing?

We have an online version here: http://eraser.heidi.ie/documentation/ We might have some else where, will have a look over the weekend.

No reason why not. If the machine has SSD drives then take note of the issues there.

If you empty your recyclebin and then run a freespace erase you should eliminate traces of the files even if they were not erased in the first pass.

Could you upload a screenshot - if it has errors then there is an issue. Are these local drives or network connected?

Its safe to restart the process

This issue occurs when eraser has been unable to erase the dummy files created during a freespace erase. I suggest try to re-run the erase with or search for and delete the hidden directory eraserswp in the root of your drive

yes it does

I think these were added by CNET, we do NOT bundle anything with eraser.