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are you running as an administrator? a limited user might see this problem. if so post some screen shots of the error message and your recycle bin showing what is inside.

Answered my own question as to what those files were in the "system volume information" folder. They were remnants of system restore points. I followed these directions to make them go away: http://indrajitc.wordpress.com/2008/03/ ... formation/ I'm down to 8500 jpgs. Using Winhex I found one...

Joey, per the idea to find the cluster number or offet of one of these "recoverable files" that shouldn't be recoverable after wiping unused space, I did it. I found many HTML files that were recoverable after a wipe ( in addition to the many jpgs). I recovered one of them and selected a...

Just an update for the record. I wanted to see if system restore was responsible for holding all those JPG files that were being recovered from "unused" space. Yes, I know there was a recommendation to turn off system restore earlier, but I couldn't afford to change that at that time. So I...

Darn it, Active@ UNDELETE identifies the files, but doesn't let me open them in the hex editor to determine the offset. It doesn't say the cluster number or offset of each file anywhere else. Winhex requires a license to do this. Recuva doesn't even find these files. Any other options you know of?

Eraser will wipe what you tell it to, including selected files and unused space. Again, Eraser will have zero impact on improving system performance. If you want to just delete files, just do it in explorer. maybe a better explanation here? http://download.cnet.com/Eraser/3000-20 ... 31814.html

Would there be a way to triangulate this. Meaning, can the undelete program find a file, report to me the location on the disk of that file, and then we use the location to narrow down what structure/directory/journal/whatever this thing is a part of? Not sure how to actually do the last part...

Thanks Joel. Any workarounds to wipe out that unused space? I tried filling up the unused space by copying and pasting a large video capture file many times. But I found that did not help, or atleast might have made a very small dent in the problem. Could it be that explorer is reporting less...

Eraser will not solve your slowness problem. It will only delete files such that they cannot be recovered. If you have the Windows XP install disk, disks for the other programs you need, and you have all useful data on the machine backed up externally then I recommend a fresh install. Before...

Hi All, I've read through similar posts with the suggestions provided and I can't seem to figure out how to fix my problem, which is being able to recover files after a unused space wipe. I don't believe Eraser is able to access large portions of the unused space on my OS drive to erase. Can...