secure deleting files which are resident in MFT?

[andreasm 0]

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

[andreasm 0]

Nobody there? Still no answers since two weeks...

[hazelnut 2]

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!

[MrRon 0]

We will be adding wiping files from the MFT in a future version of Recuva.

 

MrRon

[andreasm 0]

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.

[eniwetok 0]

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.

[klien 0]

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.

[Augeas 1]

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.