[Does Drive Wiper check for and repair bad sectors?]

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.

[Does Drive Wiper check for and repair bad sectors?]

Well at least now I know. Thank you Nergal.

[Does Drive Wiper check for and repair bad sectors?]

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.

[CCleaner thinks Firefox is still open, but it's not..]

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.