theonefoster

I'm not really so bothered about the mis-reporting of the drives. It could be considered a cosmetic bug if it didn't then block me from wiping my HDD because it thinks it's an SSD. I don't care how many warnings I have to click through or checkboxes I have to tick to confirm I agree to the risks. In this situation the "risks" of wiping the drive (i.e. prematurely aging the SSD) are irrelevant because it isn't an SSD. Artificially limiting the program because of an incorrect premise (that the drive is an SSD) is silly. Make me click through 5 warnings and checkboxes, I don't care. Phrase the warnings to make it sound scary to users who don't understand - I don't care. But I do understand and I want to securely wipe my drive, and at the moment that option simply isn't available to me via CCleaner, and for no good reason.

Is there any response to this? Is this expected behaviour? Or a bug?

You could try using Recuva to see if it will recover the files. You'll need a second drive to recover the files to though.

Under Tools -> Drive Wiper, my D: drive is showing as an SSD. In actuality it is a Windows "Storage Space" (essentially a RAID array) consisting of three physical hard drives. I want to be able to wipe the drives securely using a 3-pass wipe, but CCleaner warns me that even a single pass is "NOT recommended as it can prematurely wear out the drive" or similar, which only applies to SSDs. It refuses to let me do a 3-pass wipe. This has been pointed out before (see below) and a fix was apparently due a year ago. I have the latest version as at 14/06/18. I'm using Windows 10 64-bit home. I tried running the 32-bit version of CCleaner (including renaming the 64-bit version) but got the same outcome. I wouldn't mind having to click through 12 different warnings telling me that I definitely shouldn't do the wipe since CC thinks it's an SSD. But locking out the functionality entirely is silly given that it can be wrong about the drive type.