[Drive Wiper only does one pass]

Piriform repaired this bug in Jan-Feb. http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=35073, post #9.

 

For grins I now ran a test -- 44.4GB free on a Win7 x64 box. 1-pass was 100% completed in 0:6:48.

 

I aborted a 3-pass at ~33% 0:13:00. Finishing the multiple wipe was pointless, cos the time proves a 3-pass is certainly getting more wiping than 1-pass, on my pc.

 

Edit: btw, UTF-8 is not currently working on the forum. We'll be patient.

I'm using the latest version of CCleaner, and I'm still facing this issue. Alan, I didn't have this issue a few months ago, and I haven't changed the drive's firmware. I'm using a hard disk, not SSD.

[Drive Wiper only does one pass]

Both use windows 7 64-bit (Home premium on the laptop; Ultimate on the desktop), and are fully up to date.

[Drive Wiper only does one pass]

This is interesting, & I may take time to test on my machine to see what is happening.

 

I have a few questions I would like to ask you before we begin.

I mostly have used single pass wipe, so I don't have extensive familiarity with the others as of yet.

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How are you able to tell Drive Wiper is doing 1 pass (as opposed to 7)?

 

1) Does it take 7x less to do the pass? Or have you timed it?

2) Did prior versions state each time they completed a pass?

 

What I am trying to get at, is how do you know they did not make it complete all 7 passes before saying complete?

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Your question is interesting enough that I may test a small 2 GB flash disk (or partition) for the purpose of timing 1 vs 35 passes to see whether it is "skipping" passes, or waiting till it does them all before throwing up the complete message.

I was suspicious when it jumped from 33% (with it set to 3 passes) to saying it was complete, so I tested it with a virtual drive, which let me look at how many bytes had been written. I only have this problem on my desktop; on the laptop, CCleaner does all the passes.

[Drive Wiper only does one pass]

Even if I have it set to do 3 passes (or 7), the drive wiper only completes one of those passes; once the first pass is done, it sas "the drive wipe has been completed successfully."