Any other ideas ?
I've tried unchecking the following, and different combinations :
Wipe Alternate Data Streams - both checked, and unchecked Wipe Cluster Tips - both checked, and unchecked Wipe MTF free space - both checked, and unchecked Secure File Deletion ( Simple ovewright one pass) - both checked, and unchecked
Nothing seems to work, all that happens is the time gradually increases. After 4 hours it says 10 hours to go, then after 10 hours it says 19 hours to go. Following that it never really gets past 40% and then the program stops responding and hangs when you close it down. Using recover I can get most files back...
... which brings me to point 2. I noticed on my old desktop which was cleaned a week ago, recover found over 20,000 files from 2009 that I could recover. So some idea of what's going on would be helpful.
I'm using Win 7 home premium, I've tried safe mode, checking for drive errors, switching of any anti-virus - all of which was never an issue in the past.
Cheers.