BillSmith

Honestly, I don't know. It was my first time using Recuva and I may have done something incorrectly. I also believe that Eraser did not finish properly prior to use, however I did not have any Word docs or other files, just JPEGs and GIFs.

Well, actually it did recover many files that it had marked as "unrecoverable". It did especially well with jpegs, to my surprise. I subsequently reran Eraser with the cluster tips setting and there much fewer files remaining. No files of user note at all, just some 0 byte files and filkes that were locked by Norton, as I ran it within Windows.

I just installed Recuva and I must say it is is a powerful tool. But how can it recover files that have been overwritten and marked as unrecoverable? And this is after an Eraser "erase unused space" pass! My concern is that the files I want destroyed are still able to be recovered after a wipe. Can someone please help me with truly deleting my files? Thanks in advance!