heyros

Thanks for your help. I'm too much of a novice to start messing around with partitions, etc, but I appreciate your advice.

Thank you. It is the free version - I thought I would try before I buy the Pro. C:\drive says 857Gb free of 920. I chose the one pass option. It just went on forever all the time adding time to how long it would take to complete...then stopped altogether. I really thank you for the link to the guide. That will help a lot. I'm quite a beginner and scared to death of this type of software. (I did have the sense to backup first.) Cheers

Just installed this trial version. First job I tried was to wipe the blank part of hard drive. It stopped (not responding twice) then came back with a message that it would take 18 hours to complete. I cancelled the process. Not a good start. Running Windows 7 Home Premium, plenty of space and other things are running fine. Using Explorer and Live Mail. Is there some place I had better go to find out what's wrong already? Or should I uninstall and download again? Cheers Ros