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This is my second post about this problem because it just happened again. This time I tried to erase a folder with a few subfolders on an external USB hard drive. The program hung and would not terminate via the STOP button. I could not kill PDExplorer and had to reboot. When I went back to the...

Eraser 5.8.6 hung while erasing files from the RECYCLER folder on a USB external hard drive. When I stopped it with the STOP button it left a 208.6GB file behind even though there were only about 60GB of files before. How can I securely erase this new file?

Hello. I am trying to uninstall Eraser 5.86 so I can install the latest update. This version keeps hanging even when I try to erase a few small files. When I try to uninstall it with Add/Remove Programs it just runs the installer and tries to install the program not uninstall it. I tried letting...

Eraser 5.86 does not have eraserd.exe any more even though the help file says to use it if you want command line access. I installed 5.86 because the 5.82 version of eraserd.exe would not run.

As a WARNING to others, and for documentation purposes, this is my experience. I have been using Eraser v 5.82 for some time on Windows XP professional. It behaves very erratically especially when erasing the recycle bin, especially when it has tens of gigs of data in it. Whether I launch it...

I am wondering about how Eraser handles ISO files. I notice that it erases ISO files much faster than it erases the individual files the ISO was created from. I'm talking about less than a minute for an ISO of the entire contents of a DVD-R, i.e., 4.3+ GBs, as opposed to maybe 15 minutes to...