After scanning hard drive for deleted files, this file continually shows up. The file is unimportant and I do not need to recover it, although I can easily do so with Recuva and the recovered file is 11KB in size. It is intact and openable. The name of the file is: Outlook Express emails.zip and is simply a WinRar archive of the default OE folders. My querry is that I would rather just never see this again and would like to eliminate it once and for all. Recuva will not securely delete the file - giving the error as in the title of this message. ie: Size - unknown Status - Not overwritten - Unable to overwrite special file type.
Have used other tools, namely: Restoration and EasyRecovery, both of which cannot even find this file. Have also tried wiping free space with Eraser and Restoration but file still appears in Recuva. And, since I originally restored to a separate hard drive, the file is now "stuck" on both drive C: and drive D:
Have run Recuva is debug mode. Log is as follows:
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rDoAAAAAAPYAAAABAAAAD5pfvLBfvIYAAAAA+jPAjtC8AHz7uMAHjtjoFgC4AA2OwDPbxgYOABDo
UwBoAA1oagLLihYkALQIzRNzBbn//4rxZg+2xkBmD7bRgOI/9+KGzcDtBkFmD7fJZvfhZqMgAMO0
QbuqVYoWJADNE3IPgftVqnUJ9sEBdAT+BhQAw2ZgHgZmoRAAZgMGHABmOwYgAA+COgAeZmoAZlAG
U2ZoEAABAIA+FAAAD4UMAOiz/4A+FAAAD4RhALRCihYkABYfi/TNE2ZYWwdmWGZYH+stZjPSZg+3
DhgAZvfx/sKKymaL0GbB6hD3NhoAhtaKFiQAiujA5AYKzLgBAs0TD4IZAIzABSAAjsBm/wYQAP8O
DgAPhW//Bx9mYcOg+AHoCQCg+wHoAwD76/60AYvwrDwAdAm0DrsHAM0Q6/LDDQpBIGRpc2sgcmVh
ZCBlcnJvciBvY2N1cnJlZAANCk5UTERSIGlzIG1pc3NpbmcADQpOVExEUiBpcyBjb21wcmVzc2Vk
AA0KUHJlc3MgQ3RybCtBbHQrRGVsIHRvIHJlc3RhcnQNCgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg6CzyQAAVao=
[2009-11-04 11:20:22] [iNFO ] Reading MFT
[2009-11-04 11:20:22] [iNFO ] Reading files
[2009-11-04 11:20:24] [iNFO ] Building folders
[2009-11-04 11:20:24] [iNFO ] Restoring tree
[2009-11-04 11:20:24] [iNFO ] Analyzing damage
[2009-11-04 11:20:24] [iNFO ] 5941 deleted files, 40641 filesystem objects
[2009-11-04 11:20:24] [iNFO ] Processing deleted emails
[2009-11-04 11:20:25] [iNFO ] Processing recycle bin
[2009-11-04 11:20:25] [iNFO ] Returning list
[2009-11-04 11:20:25] [iNFO ] 806 / 2553
[2009-11-04 11:20:25] [iNFO ] Exiting scan
[2009-11-04 11:20:29] [ERROR] Not a PNG file
[2009-11-04 11:20:29] [ERROR] jpg error
[2009-11-04 11:20:56] [ERROR] Recuva exception: MboxFileRecordImpl.cpp(99) : Unable to overwrite special file type (0x000000b5)
[2009-11-04 11:20:56] [ERROR] Not a PNG file
[2009-11-04 11:20:56] [ERROR] jpg error