jaytayway

@nukecad The first one is always a flash drive, followed by an internal and external hard drive. Thanks for the article, I read through it and I'll try a simple overwrite next time.

Hi fellas, not sure what this falls under as it seems to be an odd correlation, but it's happened 3 times now. I wanted to format and wipe 3 different drives, so after a full format on each one I started 3 separate instances of CCleaner to do a 35-pass full erase with the Drive Wiper tool. When I started the third one (the other two had been going for a while) my internet crashed and never recovered. Still nothing after hours, so I aborted the wiping and restarted. Simply reconnecting gave me horrible performance, so I had to restart my modem, router and USB, and after 15 minutes I was finally able to use the internet at full speed again. I thought, perhaps, starting all those instances was dumb, but I honestly still can't see why as everything else was working fine, I didn't have any performance issues with software/videogames, and the wiping process seemed to carry on just fine, but my internet was completely dead. Nevertheless, I did a full format on everything again and restarted the procedure, this time only one instance after waiting for all the drives to be ready. Immediately as I start the Drive Wiper tool, my internet connection collapses again, so I aborted and went through the exact same procedure as before to restore my connection. Third attempt was identical. Did I do a stupid? Does anyone have an explanation? Did I encounter a super specific bug? Anything is appreciated. Thank you.