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Overwriter Thank you for the quick reply. I'm getting rid of my old computer this week and giving it to a friend in need. I'm not too worried, as I completly trust my friend, and I'm sure that the program was more than effective. Just didn't want to risk any of my personal...

I ran a defrag before using the eraser program to overwrite unused free space (wish I read the FAQ page first). Does this mean that the erase was not as secure and some files may not have been overwritten completly? The FAQ says some traces may still remain if drive is defragmented first...

Overwriter Thanks for clearing all that up for me. What I meant to say was that a WinSxS folder is on my C drive under the windows folder, and all the files that are protected with possible failures are on this folder. So I'll assume that the program did its job since the task report said...

Thanks for the reply. The protected files are all in a WinSxS folder on my desktop. How can I close all current running applications on my computer to avoid this? I was also wondering under the general preferances tab what "Enable backround (slow) entropy polling is? Doesn't just a basic...

I have read a bit more, and now know the difference between all the different passes. It seems that anything over a couple passes is an overkill. From what I've read on here a pseudorandom data pass is good enough. I still haven't found out what caused the possible failure on the task...

Hello, I am giving my computer away but do not want to destroy the OS, and ran the Eraser program with the 7 pass in which I edited and choose the random numbers (1's and 0's). After the erase was completed, the statistics read as follows. So my question is it safe to say that my unused C disk...