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You need to uninstall and then manually delete any eraser dll's and files, then delete registry entries as well. Finally reinstall. Hopefully that should fix the issue,

Run as administrator, then insert drive, right click and wipe disk.

On a modern drive one pass erase will be just as good as the other methods: Recovery possibilities are based on: - Damaged drive so it cannot be erased in the first place - SSD drive where the data can be written to a different place each time - here a full wipe should work but individual...

It does though documentation is non-existent - check the source code instead.

Few things to note: 1. The 000's of files it recovers after a wipe are the random data files eraser creates during erase. 2. Files which seem to be recovered should be full of random data. What happens if you 1. Erase a file with known data e.g 'aaaaaaaaa' in a txt file can you recover it...

Its almost certain you ran a disk erase and not a freespace erase. There is no chance of recovery here. If possible restore your email from backups.

Try running windows update - this looks like an error in Microsoft.net and not eraser.

If you want to totally purge the machine of all possible information then you need to use something like DBAN and reinstall the OS afterwards. Eraser is best suited to wiping individual files and old deleted data on the machine. It does not go hunting around for credit card details etc to wipe.

280GB is going to take a long time to erase. You should only use one pass erase in this case or it will take "forever" to complete. If you see the need to erase free-space often then partition the drive into smaller sections. BTW: Eraser works by filling up the drive with files containing...

Re: Accidentally Cut instead of Copy, Did I Need to Use Eras Yes 'cutting' the files just copies and then uses windows delete so the file will be in the trash bin and recoverable. Erase the windows trash or empty the trash and do a freespace erase.

Try using runas Administrator on eraser or turn off UAC.

Have not tried that product but 2G seems like a FAT limitation. Is the secure partition formatted as FAT16/FAT32 or NTFS?

Re: I need to Format my HDD. i need to know if DBAN will do You can use the windows install to clear the partitions. DBAN will wipe the disk completely and take a lot of time. I'm assuming here you just want to repartition and not wipe the drive contents?

DOD might be faster as PRNG has to get the random bytes each time. The difference should be almost nothing in real terms.

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...