andreasm 0 Report post 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andreasm 0 Report post Posted February 17, 2008 Nobody there? Still no answers since two weeks... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hazelnut 2 Report post 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! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrRon 0 Report post Posted February 18, 2008 We will be adding wiping files from the MFT in a future version of Recuva. MrRon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andreasm 0 Report post 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eniwetok 0 Report post 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
klien 0 Report post 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Augeas 1 Report post 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites