How can I delete them anyway?
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secure deleting files which are resident in MFT?
Started by andreasm, Feb 02 2008 12:03 PM
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Posted 02 February 2008 - 12:03 PM
At the end of secure deleting files, recuva says that lots of files are resident in MFT and couldn't be deleted.
How can I delete them anyway?
EDIT: Added logfile
How can I delete them anyway?
EDIT: Added logfile
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Posted 17 February 2008 - 12:51 PM
Nobody there? Still no answers since two weeks... 
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Posted 17 February 2008 - 02:23 PM
If you have a look for info on the Master File Table, for instance here,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;en-us;Q174619
don't really think it's a good idea to try and delete files from there!
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;en-us;Q174619
don't really think it's a good idea to try and delete files from there!
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Posted 18 February 2008 - 09:09 AM
We will be adding wiping files from the MFT in a future version of Recuva.
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Posted 23 February 2008 - 12:30 PM
Okay thanks!
At the moment, people think all files are deleted securely, but some files aren't. So it's not possible to trust this function at all.
At the moment, people think all files are deleted securely, but some files aren't. So it's not possible to trust this function at all.
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Posted 05 July 2010 - 12:07 AM
MrRon, on 18 February 2008 - 09:09 AM, said:
We will be adding wiping files from the MFT in a future version of Recuva.
Was this feature ever added? I just tried to delete some images using Recuva and I got the message that they were not overwritten because they were resident in the MFT.
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Posted 19 May 2011 - 02:59 AM
It's May 2011, using version 1.40 securely deleting obscure resident files in the MFT is still not supported?
Or are your supporting the obscure part? Looks more like it, 3 years for an important feature and nada.
Or are your supporting the obscure part? Looks more like it, 3 years for an important feature and nada.
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Posted 19 May 2011 - 08:03 AM
As I'm sure you're aware, wipe MFT has been available in CCleaner for some time. As far as I know overwriting MFT entries is achieved by allocating sufficient dummy files to fill the MFT then deleting them (there being no safe way of overwriting a specific entry outside of the control of NTFS). This function is more suitable to be in CC, which is a cleanup application, than Recuva, which is prinarily a recovery application.
