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On an SSD drive eraser cannot be used to wipe individual files and there is no guarantee the same blocks are written to as the ones read from. The free-space erase should clear the data from the empty parts of the drive but note: on an SSD one pass is enough and be aware that over provisioning...

First format the drive normally in windows and then do a 1 pass free-space erase. One pass is good enough and the formatting should fix the issue with it trying to munch through so many files.

Eraser has a feature to remove the first and last 16K which basically corrupts the file by destroying its header and footer markers.

Can you download the latest nightly build and let me know if your problem still exists?

Errors can occur for a variety of reasons. The message means Eraser was unable to complete its task e.g the file was in use or blocked e.g by security settings or a AV scanner.

Something has gone wrong.Format the drive and try erasing again there may be bad sectors present.

Re: Is a file moved to a USB drive recoverable in hard drive No problem :)

Re: Is a file moved to a USB drive recoverable in hard drive right click on the file and select "secure move"

Re: Is a file moved to a USB drive recoverable in hard drive When you do secure move eraser will copy the file and erase the original. If you really want to be safe you can empty the recycle bin and do a free space erase to wipe any temporary files created by the application you may have used...

yes but this feature is excluded in 6.1 - could you send me a screen shot so I know we are talking about the same thing.

With this floppy problem I'll need to get an XP machine with a floppy drive, these days that could be a near impossible task, currently we test with XP VM images. The task window you mention is a feature missing problem from 6.0 Await the next release....

Just released a new build http://eraser.heidi.ie/download.php?id=279 From your screenshots its the old 6.0 version you are using. You need to be testing against the above build as I cannot fix bugs in older versions. Let me know if the new version fixes the floppy issue.

Re: Is a file moved to a USB drive recoverable in hard drive If you are using secure move it should get transferred correctly.

For XP make sure you are logged in as administrator, check there is a reasonable amount of diskspace free, empty the recycle bin and retry.

Just reinstall.

Can you retest with this version: http://eraser.heidi.ie/download.php?id=278 I think the marker you refer to might be the FAT delete marker. I'll check this over the weekend.

Can you download the latest version from http://eraser.heidi.ie/download.php?id=278 and let me know if the problem exists in this version.

mmm Eraser 8.5.5?? You must be using a time machine :) If I recall the old versions would carry on erasing on top of whatever the plugin did. Generally to test we use Truecrypt to create and mount a file drive then wipe this with zeros and install our test files for erasure. This way there...

I think the issue relates to language localisation, will haver to test this and see if I can repeat it

Eraser 5.7 is an x86 application, you need to install the 6.0 series as it will appear in both x86 and x64 explorer. To use the 5.7 version on 64bit windows you need to start up the 32bit version of explorer.