andreasm Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 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 Recuva_log_1_10_223__6_2_2008_19_34_.txt Recuva_log_1_10_223__6_2_2008_19_34_.txt my private homepage www.energie-bewusstsein.de - stop wasting energy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreasm Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 Nobody there? Still no answers since two weeks... my private homepage www.energie-bewusstsein.de - stop wasting energy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted February 17, 2008 Moderators Share Posted February 17, 2008 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! Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MrRon Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 We will be adding wiping files from the MFT in a future version of Recuva. MrRon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreasm Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 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. my private homepage www.energie-bewusstsein.de - stop wasting energy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eniwetok Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klien Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted May 19, 2011 Moderators Share Posted May 19, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hmm Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 Still no delete file from mft. And no, we don't want to wipe the entire mft. Do you know how long that can take? The original comment by your staff made mention this was going to be available in a future release. If that's wrong, then a formal retraction in this thread is warranted. That's the right thing to do, don't you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators nukecad Posted January 27, 2021 Moderators Share Posted January 27, 2021 Do you realise that this thread originated in 2008 - Just short of 13 years ago? And hasn't had a comment, previous to yours, since 2011 - Almost 10 years. If it's not happened in that time then I think you can assume it isn't happening. "Wipe MFT free space" can be found under Options>Settings in CCleaner. It also needs 'Wipe Free Space' to be checked in Custom Clean. (One off use, don't leave it selected all the time or it will just slow your custom cleans down). OK that's CCleaner not Recuva. Different tools for different jobs. *** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory *** Worried about 'Tracking Files'? Worried about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link:https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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