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Sometimes the sledge hammer option is all we have left :) , but not necessarily in this case ... If a corrupt file table is at the root of any of your problems (i.e. the corruption is not caused by any hardware problem which is still present), then formatting the drive (or, if you want to be...

Good. This was the result I was hoping for (and cautiously expecting). You are correct about Recuva's findings, and they represent a good result, of course. What I think happened with the original partition volume is that a reserve copy of the MFT somehow survived in protected form. Removing...

I think you have some kind of system problem. What hardware, OS version, and version of Eraser are you using? Have you tried using different USB ports? If you are using a laptop, how are the external drives powered? David

Eraser 6 currently runs tasks sequentially, which is the best approach if they all relate to the one physical drive. Joel does, I believe, intend to enable parallel running of tasks on different drives in a future release of Eraser, but that is likely to be some way off. Another planned...

That is what Eraser's unused space erasing does. It does not touch non-deleted files (except, by default, to erase their cluster tips; this can be switched off, and arguably should be on a system (C:) drive). Note that erasing free space is usually time-consuming, and should ideally be done...

Cluster tip 'errors' of the kind you quote are inevitable, particularly on a C: drive. I have suggested to JOel that these should not be regarded as errors at all; this is part of a wider discussion about the way event logging works in Eraser. These non-errors have nothing at all to do with your...

What you seem to want is, pretty much, already provided in context menu erasing and/or drag and drop erasing. These are the least complex ways of using Eraser 6, which, in some ways, is better thought of as an add-on to Explorer than as a separate application. I do agree that the event logging...

Whatever 'it' is (and 'it' is not Eraser), randomising is almost certainly what it has not done, so I'm not sure that I have explained this effectively. But without a better understanding of what you mean, there's not a lot I can add. David

As far as I can determine, it is a system (rather than a program) error. It might be worth doing a disk check on the problem card, or moving the data elsewhere, formatting the card and then repeating the free space erase (though this should not be done to often, or it may shorten the card's...

It can very easily happen. Remember that Eraser can only erase the space that is marked as free. So if the system has created security copies of files elsewhere on your system in space not marked as free, those copies will not be erased. In my experience, the people who design file systems tend...

Re: Fresh install of 6.0.10.2620 says a new version is avail Not one that I knew about, though I should have checked in testing, I suppose ... :oops: I can confirm your finding, however. I suspect that Joel forgot to update the current version information that the module accesses. This is...

Which drive were you erasing? Normally, there is a single randomly named folder in the root of that drive; it will have a time stamp of when you did the erase. Just delete it. David

The procedure you used is the correct one. What does the Eraser log say about the task? And was/is System Restore enabled on the target drive? Eraser should have cleared the MFT, but so also should the format, so I'm a bit uncertain as to how the directory entries have survived; I have never...

I beg your pardon. It is towards the end of the "Common Eraser Questions" topic, and has a longish quote in italics. David

Indeed. Thanks for looking at the FAQ; there are answers to all the most common questions there. David

Re: Eraser 6.0.10.2620 does not complete task in Limited acc I think it unlikely that what does not cause problems for Eraser 6.0.x will cause problems for 6.1.x . There is, of course, a great deal of code and functional commonality between the two versions, and, where 6.1 has branched off from...

Sounds good. Glad to help. David

It isn't clear to me what you actually want to do. If your priority is simply deleting Internet and other system clutter, I would recommend CCleaner, which finds the folders for you (and has an overwriting/erasing option for better security). For erasing particular personal data, or a more...

I'll take your points in reverse order. The shortcut is still there (I confess I had not investigated it before), but it works a bit oddly. If a folder is selected, the shortcut opens the folder; if a file is selected, the shortcut invokes Eraser (though actually only the further sub-menu, so...

Your plan is a good one. It might not provide a solution, but will eliminate a fair number of possibilities. If Defraggler is working, by the way, the chances are that there is nothing much amiss with your file system. For this test, make sure you use a single pass erasing method. There is no...