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Steff

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  1. Good to know. I have noticed that I tend to rely more and more on Eraser as a shredder. :-) For now I'm happy with 5.7 but will check later verions... later. But I would never trust it, or any other software, to Wipe Free Space on a running Windows System Disk. That task is best trusted from DOS. I regulary use TeraByte Image for DOS for "Ghosting". And most important for this forum... I use Piriform products ;-) - CCleaner Garbage Cleaner with 1 overwrite pass.... Daily. - Defraggler Quick Defrag... making sure permanent files is Defragged. - Recuva has a nice feature... to securly overwrite deleted files. But Recuva won't touch MFT and Slack (Cluster Tips). Hopefully in later versions. Think about it... the only Free Space needed to overwrite is the Deleted Free Space. Never Used Free Space has never been touch... so waste time on those clusters? Have a Nice Evening (Swedish Time)
  2. marmite: So true. At some point the man seems to have ended up with a messed up harddrive, using Eraser. But we will probably never know the full story why this happened. login123: I don't even like Coca Cola...but then again... the formula could be worth a couple of bucks. ;-) There are several methods if you want to be s(ec)ure, degausser, catepillar, sledge hammer... I'm just looking for a stable product that does what it's supposed to without any surprises. I like Piriforms products but in this case they dont do enough for me. They don't seem to take care of slack (cluster tips) and the MFT. So... thats why I poped up in here. :-)) But mission acomplished now. What did I do? I wiped my harddrive using TeraBytes CopyWipe (Random Pattern). Then partioned, formatted and restored the information from my backup disk. Easy enough.... the disk is now clean from "garbage" and I am in full control of the disk. But before I did all this I wanted to test the Wipe Free Space function in Eraser 5.7. I ended up with a positiv result. So maybe, maybe I can trust it. ;-) With a new fresh disk I will from now on be more observant when I delete sensitive information... ...(probably) using Context Menu File Shredder in Eraser 5.7 (or later???). Stay cautious... :-)
  3. Answer to Marmite... He was refering to that later point releases (i.e. 5.8+) have had extremely serious bugs these bugs don't exist in version 5.7. Read his own words here...
  4. Question to AssChin79 or anyone else with knowledge... I'm currently on the hunt for a secure, stable disk wiper and file shredder. I keep reading a lot of recommendation pointing to Eraser but last night I read a disclaimer from one of these people. His recomenndation was to NOT use any Eraser version beyond version 5.7. Quote: -"the last version whose core was developed by the original author, Sami Tolvanen" Any comment on this? I have my doubts though to Wipe Erased, Unused space on a Disk within a running Windows plattform.... especially on the Operating Disk. Any comments on this? Any alternativ suggestions that boots under DOS? KillDisk? Anyone? /Steff
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