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#1 OFFLINE   andreasm

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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?


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#2 OFFLINE   andreasm

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Posted 17 February 2008 - 12:51 PM

Nobody there? Still no answers since two weeks... :blink:
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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!
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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.
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Posted 05 July 2010 - 12:07 AM

View PostMrRon, 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.

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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.