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Hello, everyone. I have been a user of Eraser, and bragging on it all over the place, for about seven years, now. I believe that it was 2001 when I first used it, when it was being developed by someone else...SourceForge, I think. I've used it on W95, W98, WME, W2K, and WXP. I've been using...

When overwriting unused space, how does eraser interact with virtual, encrypted, hidden directories? If it can't find it, I suppose it can't erase it. If it is invisible to eraser, does eraser assume that it is free space, and overwrite it? Anyone here have any experience with this?

I'm running W2k Pro. I've thought about running Eraser, for unused space cleanup, in safe mode, in order to speed things up. It seems that it would be safe, but I don't know. Is it safe? I use Eraser 5.7.

With a 400 mHz cpu, how long does is take to "Nuke" a 40-gig HDD, using the 35-pass Gutmann? (90 MB SDRAM, if that matters.)

Right now, I'm using Eraser 5.6. I'm reluctant to use 5.8 because of the problems that I keep reading about. I've used 5.7; but, for whatever reason, I seemed to have downloaded and installed 5.6. It seems to work okay. Are there any problems with 5.6 that an upgrade to 5.7 would handle? Is...

I understand that Windows 2000 creates a temporary, or backup, file of each file that is accessed or changed. I could be wrong, but that is what I've heard. I've heard that Eraser cannot touch these backups. Apparently, Eraser can't erase a file that has been formatted with Unicode. How does...