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Re: Thx Sami It would require some changes to the Eraser library API. I suggest you take a look at the source code and judge for yourself.

1. This is a known issue. Windows doesn't like it when programs touch its font files and requires a reboot to recover. Maybe Eraser should have an option to skip the fonts when erasing cluster tips? 2. Getting Eraser to compile with Unicode support enabled is going to require some work. I...

The only way to do this would be to first select your custom method to be used for unused disk space from preferences (you only need to do this once, e.g when you create your method), and then omit the "-method" parameter when calling "eraserl.exe". The program will then use the method selected...

The operating system protects all files that are opened with exclusive access by any process, there isn't anything special about index.dat files. The reason they are locked most of the time is that the Windows shell, which starts when you log in and (understandably) doesn't shut down until you...

It doesn't. (I believe this is mentioned in the help file.)

Unfortunately, the only way to change this behavior would be to edit the source code. If you send a bug report via email, maybe this will get fixed in the next version? Probably not. Perhaps it could be if someone volunteered to do the translation. It's open source and all.

The answer to this and any other technical question can be found by reading the source code. Anyway, Eraser instructs the operating system to flush the disk cache after each write, and also disables buffering if possible. It's up to Windows and the hard drive whether the data actually hits the...

Sorry, only by editing the source code and recompiling.

The GNU GPL only sets restrictions on distributing the program. Once you have obtained a copy, you are free to use it in any way you want.

That's strange, I remember being able to use more than one pass of pseudorandom data for unused disk space. Is anyone else here experiencing the same problem?

Although a CompactFlash memory card should be able to handle even hundreds of thousands of writes per sector, I wouldn't recommend erasing one. Multiple overwriting passes especially are targeted for magnetic media, and they would produce nothing but excessive wear on a memory card. Perhaps...

I suspect there is actually very little chance of anything important being stored in the cluster tip of a locked system file, so personally, I wouldn't bother booting to safe mode just for that.

You received this error message, because for some strange reason, either Eraser couldn't find an overwriting method for erasing unused disk space (make sure one is selected in preferences), or the overwriting thread crashed unexpectedly (cannot help you with that one). If nothing else helps, you...

There is always "shred" that comes with GNU fileutils, but beware that every modern Linux distribution by default uses journaled filesystems, which have some issues with overwriting (see "man shred"). You may want to consider setting up an encrypted filesystem with loop-aes...

OT: Forum problems OK, the exact error message I receive after being logged in for a while is "PHP has encountered an Access Violation at [address]". I'm using "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4". I have to restart the browser to access the forum again.

You can use "eraserl.exe" together with the Windows scheduler. The command line interface is documented in the help file. I too have experienced problems with the forum when using Firefox and Linux (something about PHP segmentation fault). This seems to happen only if I'm logged in, not always...

You'll need newer header files. I am not sure if Microsoft still provides a Platform SDK for Visual C++ 6.0 though. See also the file README-SOURCE.txt that comes with the source code.

It has been known for ages that overwriting is not entirely effective on journaled filesystems, such as NTFS. These filesystems are not guaranteed to overwrite data in place, and in fact, they usually create temporary copies of the data in a journal or a log file. I think this should be...

Well, "Directory Snoop" is an excellent program, but the last time I checked, it didn't support NTFS partitions. I only have a trial version of "Restorer 2000", but it definitely looks more trustworthy than "CIA Unerase". "WinHex" doesn't quite fit into the same category, but it's one of the...

My experience with CIA Unerase I decided to download a trial copy of the "CIA Unerase" program, and see if I could reproduce Simon's and Jack's results on my Windows 2000 system, using NTFS file system. Here are some of the observations I made, which I think might interest you. First, I...