SuperGator68

Looks like my issue is related to this thread. After wiping free space on C:, the system no longer recognizes anything on external hard drives. I have 3 external USB drives (2 Seagate and 1 WD). All are used for file storage and none used as backup. They are visible in Disk Management, Windows Explorer and Device Manager (no issues with drives or USB controllers). Partitions are also shown as being Healthy and NTFS file system. Using Win Explorer, it says the volumes are empty. Using Properties, 2 drives show all allocated memory is available. One shows 0 capacity, 0 used space and 0 free space. I tried formatting one and I get a message that says the disk is write protected. Chkdisk says Windows can't access the disk. I'm using Win 7 Ultimate with 20Gb RAM and 2 - 1Tb internal drives that are working just fine, a NAS and USB thumb drives work also. Any help is greatly appreciated. Update: The drives were not connected when Wipe Free Space was run. Just tried drive on another computer, same result. It appears that something was written to the drives when mounted. Not so much worried about loss of data but sure would like to use the drives.

nodles is correct, Google processes are causing the skipped files. Like newbie said above, it only started with the newest CCClean update. Having to manually stop the processes with Task Manager before running CCClean is somewhat cumbersome. Since this was not a problem before, I don't know if Google is recently failing to close the processes and or if it is a CCClean problem. All help appreciated. OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit Service Pack 1 CCClean 4.19.4867 64-bit Chrome 38.0.2125.111 m (rarely use Chrome)