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Re: XP hangs at what looks to be 98 percent left wipe free s Without Tips, no errors with 3 pass. I will assume the 35 pass at 98 % issue could be simply due to the performance of the system / drives as was stated and\or the bug (fragmented MFT/Directories) that was referenced earlier that is...

Re: XP hangs at what looks to be 98 percent left wipe free s Just to be clear... this is the C drive... where windows is installed. The above job finshed but with errors. I tried to view the errors in the log but it wouldnt let me scroll to the right of the UI to see the full content of the...

Re: XP hangs at what looks to be 98 percent left wipe free s Thanks for the replies and feedback. I am trying 3 pass now with bitdefender AntiVirus off, however I left tips on. Let's see what happens. If still unsuccessful I will try again except with tips off.

Re: XP hangs at what looks to be 98 percent left wipe free s Thanks for the detailed reply and explanations ! Can you explain what this option does and why I dont need it checked? "the option to erase cluster tips un-checked" Also, note I was listening to the drive during that 24 hr period...

Hi... I ran into an issue while trying to wipe the free space on an XP SP3 machine. The hard drive is about 120 gig and I would say only about 40 to 45 gig of it was full, rest empty. I started the manual job (35 passes) on Sunday evening around 11pm EST and it was still running by Thursday 8...