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now that I have that sorted, I have a 250 gig hardrive which now has about 200 gigs free, about long will it take to overwrite this hardrive? thanx in advance

thank you overwriter, the eraser link you gave me did the trick on the first compuer I tried, I will let you know if all is well on the other one when I get a chance and thanx for the other links as well, I have not done a complete chkdsk yet but plan on it when I do get a chance, spybot had no...

thanx for all the info and suggestion, am going away for a couple of weeks and will come back to this board when I return to give results of your post thanx again

it's not on a newtwork and I don't believe it's overwriting I believe it's hanging, there is no progress for hours, also when I it cancel the window stays up and does not go away

k, so I disabled readyboost and disconected my portable hardrive and no differance, eraser hangs deleting the contents of my recycle bin and yes, windows reports there is nothing in that bin right now but eraser sees a few things to erase which leads me to believe eraser might be seeing a...

this is version 5.86.1, I am running vista, I have the user access control off, my file system is ntfs I have no backup programs running, this exact same thing happened on my other similar box however on that box I finally got the simplest erase to complete however it did see files it could not...

ah, I put up the wrong link anyway, when erasing my recycle bin it hangs, each time I try to re-delete it hangs earlier I am left with no free space on my 250 gig drive that before this process had almost 100 gigs available I would like to search the component left by eraser and delete those...

so I have this issuehttp://bbs.heidi.ie/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=4705 I have two vista laptops it happened on both of them, I am wondering what the file is called be eraser so I can manually delete the the excess left behing, (I am left with less then a gig of free space) also, is there a solution?