toddsyr

Yeah, I read that today, but I always appreciate the input. It's good for others to read as well. This drive is at least 15 years old though so who knows if it's worth the 7 passes or not. Besides, it's in an external hard drive enclosure, it can take all the time it wants now that I think about it. I can use the regular solid state C drive while it's doing it's thing.. I'm just using it to keep it out of the landfill. I also have everything backed up into my mechanical D drive. All my photo archives etc are also on CD's.

Well at least now I know. Thank you Nergal.

Does Drive Wiper check and repair bad sectors? I'm currently formatting an old hard drive to be used as a backup. If Drive Wiper checks for and repairs bad sectors, great. It will save me from running CheckDisk on a 400 GB hard drive. The 7 pass overwriting is taking long enough! Thanks.

I had the problem of CCleaner saying Firefox was still running when it wasn't today. I even checked the Task Manager, nothing there for Firefox. Come to find out I had a pending Windows Update. I ran that and now CCleaner works fine. I guess having the update "in the que" made CCleaner think my browser was running. This might be because I yanked out Windows Edge a while back. All is well now.