Help! :x
Let me start off by saying, I didn't know until reading posts on this site today that you were not supposed to use version 5.3 of Eraser with Windows XP (SP2). I had been running it without incident for years on Window XP. I didn't know that there were newer versions of Eraser because I remember reading from Sami's site some years ago that this was the last version he was to work on. That said, I had a major problem with the free space operation on my drive.
Since this operation takes a long time, I run it before going to bed. This time I had fogotten to shut off all active programs and my Anti Virus was up (Computer Associates eTrust version 7.1.6.0). When I awoke in the morning, I came into a file full message and a popup indicating that the Anti Virus quarantined a virus in three files. I don't remember the file names but they seemed to be random letters with random file extensions. The virus was called "MTE DAME". Eraser was hung and did not compete. Obviously, I did a reboot. I found that the disk was 100% full (40 Gig) and I was unable to browse its contents in Windows Explorer. Windows Explorer would just hang for that drive only (and so would add / remove programs). Because I really couldn't see the files on the disk, I was unable to clear up any space. What I did next was to buy a new much larger Seagate drive (160 Gig). I did the disk cloning operation from the full drive to the new drive and I am now running on the new disk. I am still unable to browse even the new disk with windows explorer but I am able to browse it using DOS commands. I found in the root over three hundred directories named "~ERAFEWD.*". Using the DOS remove directory command with the /S and /D switches, I was able to remove all of these directories and delete the files inside of them. That cleared up over 5 Gig of space and my computer seems to be operating almost normally now but I still cannot browse the directory tree of the drive within windows from any application. It now takes over 15 minutes to display the list of programs in the add / remove programs box. I feel that there must still be something wrong.
What should I do?
Thank you,
Mark Ruscitti
Let me start off by saying, I didn't know until reading posts on this site today that you were not supposed to use version 5.3 of Eraser with Windows XP (SP2). I had been running it without incident for years on Window XP. I didn't know that there were newer versions of Eraser because I remember reading from Sami's site some years ago that this was the last version he was to work on. That said, I had a major problem with the free space operation on my drive.
Since this operation takes a long time, I run it before going to bed. This time I had fogotten to shut off all active programs and my Anti Virus was up (Computer Associates eTrust version 7.1.6.0). When I awoke in the morning, I came into a file full message and a popup indicating that the Anti Virus quarantined a virus in three files. I don't remember the file names but they seemed to be random letters with random file extensions. The virus was called "MTE DAME". Eraser was hung and did not compete. Obviously, I did a reboot. I found that the disk was 100% full (40 Gig) and I was unable to browse its contents in Windows Explorer. Windows Explorer would just hang for that drive only (and so would add / remove programs). Because I really couldn't see the files on the disk, I was unable to clear up any space. What I did next was to buy a new much larger Seagate drive (160 Gig). I did the disk cloning operation from the full drive to the new drive and I am now running on the new disk. I am still unable to browse even the new disk with windows explorer but I am able to browse it using DOS commands. I found in the root over three hundred directories named "~ERAFEWD.*". Using the DOS remove directory command with the /S and /D switches, I was able to remove all of these directories and delete the files inside of them. That cleared up over 5 Gig of space and my computer seems to be operating almost normally now but I still cannot browse the directory tree of the drive within windows from any application. It now takes over 15 minutes to display the list of programs in the add / remove programs box. I feel that there must still be something wrong.
What should I do?
Thank you,
Mark Ruscitti
