Longshanks

Hi Does no one have any ideas here? It's a bit fundamental as this issue of locked drives and used clusters etc will affect everyone. Believe me, download DS Snoop (trial) and search for refs-many appear in unusual locations that obviously can't be touched by CCleaner and Recuva. Thought it was interesting that's all Buenas Dias L

Hi Forgive me this is sort of a continuation of an earlier thread on the CCleaner forum but as I've just downloaded Recuva here goes: Another prog (Directory Snoop) identifies files and strings and allows wiping of files and "clusters". Unfortunately this prog has a problem with Vista in that Vista does not allow "user-mode" programs like Directory Snoop to write to raw disk sectors unless the drive volume is locked. Drives can only be locked if there are no open files on them so this excludes the boot drive. If this is so would not recuva have the same problem permanently erasing these clusters when the OS is Vista? Appreciate your time. Longshanks

Many thanks for your help

Hi Everyone New to this board having just downloaded version 2.8.0.588. I use Vista and IE 7 (I think!) Have only run default options so far and not tweaked the advanced settings. I know that CCleaner is supposed to erase index dat files and other web browsing records but I have a question. The prog runs on my system OK and always reports that the entries have been removed but if I check with other software (Directory Snoop) there is a myriad of entries in unused clusters on the hard drive. I suspect that this is a Windows issue and that these entries would not be touched by other more sophisticated cleaning tools. Am I right? I thought that the fact that these entries were in "unused clusters" meant that they were ripe for removal. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. Thanks Longshanks