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I've recently had the same problem. I had Eraser 5.8.7 installed and after the latest Microsoft windows updates (I'm using XP Pro SP3), whenever I right click on any desktop icon the computer completely freezes and I have to do a hardware reset! I uninstalled Eraser and the problem went away...

You can't do this with eraser. There is an old program called Restoration available here: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html that will do it. Just click on search deleted files and when it finishes finding all your files select 'delete completely' from the 'others' tab.

Is there a way to change the number and type of erase passes using this method? So, for example, I would prefer to use guttman (35 passes) on the first/last 16kb, is there a way to selct this? Also why don't you give a user selected option to allow the first/last 'x' kb of space to be wiped...

Hi overwriter, As far as I can tell the 15GB figure is where drives started to use PRML encoding which from what I read will theoretically, if not practically, make a single wipe pass all that is required to securely erase the disk. It is technically possible on drives lower than 15Gb...

I've now done a bit more reading and it seems that the Gutmann method is overkill as long as the drive is over 15GB. I would still want to do a couple of wipes though just for peace of mind. The WinHex program is interesting, I'm going to trial it and see how it goes. Thanks again.

Hello overwriter, thanks for the reply. I'm not sold on a one pass erase as being secure. I want to do a Gutmann wipe, so as you can imagine, wiping a huge disc takes a looooooooong time. I'd never thought of using a hex editor to find the files. Do you know of one with built in secure erase...

If I do a normal file delete in windows (not to the recycle bin) can eraser find that file and then securely delete it? By the way, I know I can do a free space wipe but that takes too long.