A couple of months ago, running the "Wipe MFT Free Space" (Single pass) only took about 5 minutes to be completed. Now, a single pass lasts for at least 30 minutes. It goes quickly until 44%, then it goes 1% per 5 minutes until it reaches 50%. Then, the countdown speeds up until 100% and the wiping starts. Normaly it takes 35 minutes to do a single pass now, but a couple of months ago, it took only 5 minutes.
Im running both Windows 7 and Windows 10. I tried to defrag the partitions and it didnt worked. I need it to be fast as before. ¿Any Ideas?.
The main reason to wipe the Free Space is because of Recuva. I'd like to know if there's another way for avoiding the deep scan of Recuva. I've been Wiping the Free Space of the Hard Disks at least once per day (Single pass), and when I've the time, i'd like to do a "3-times pass" (Advanced), although I have to wait like 50 mins for it to finish.
Thank you.