Hi guys,
I can't seem to figure out what I should expect. Most tools when erasing a file, just rename it a lot of times so that a weird (more or less random) name ends up in the MFT. Although the clusters this file occupied are overwritten, this behaviour is kind of annoying: some of those random MFT-records 'pretend' to be pictures or documents. This makes my checks for recoverability with Recuva harder. Of course, a fake file name is better than the original name, no doubt about that.
What is important is that these MFT record points to a non-existing file. So this record can be reused for a new file. I hope I'm correct thusfar?
I believe the MFT-cannot shrink, but can CCcleaner use up these free MFT-records and put something more logical in them like 0001, 0002, 0003, etc?
Also, I'm wondering what the MFT-clear does exactly:).
cheers,
Jeroen