Are you logged in as an administrator and/or tried to launch CCleaner with right-click option "Run as administrator"?
try to shift delete the windows folder from the drive you want the completely wipe. I think drive wiper is specifically looking at windows\system32 but not certain.
You could of course just format the d drive. You could then run Wipe Free Space on the drive immediately, or wait until you've installed your O/S.
Hello. I have a question. So I'm at college working off of an old windows vista that I've reformatted to be a Windows 7 Ultimate Edition. Well, I have two main drives on my computer, Recovery Drive (C:) and OS (D:). I currently have my Windows 7 Ultimate Edition formatted to my Recovery Drive (C:), but my Recovery Drive (C:) only has about 10 GB's of space and its full, not allowing me to install any programs, and disturbing the performance of my computer. My OS (D:) which has 136 GB on it, is also full but I would like to wipe my OS (D:) drive and reformat THAT disk to have Windows 7 Ultimate Edition on it. However, when I use CCleaner to wipe the drive of OS (D:), after I type ERASE into the message box, an error message keeps coming up saying ACCESS IS DENIED. I cant seem to find any topics about how to fix this, and I don't know what to do myself. If anyone can help me i would very much appreciate it.
Windows 7 has been "installed" on C:\ but cannot install programs, therefore it cannot have CCleaner installed.
If the image is correct in showing that the current O.S. is Windows 7, then presumably it is running in C:\ and your target D:\ can be erased,
BUT NOT by CCleaner or any other product that is located on D:\
If further advice is required it would be better to start with your own topic that can be dedicated to your problem and not be disrupted with unrelated queries about wiping,
and include a screen shot of all drives and partitions as shown by Disk Management.
I downloaded and ran the latest version of CCCleaner today. I run Windows XP Pro..Everything thing worked fine until I used drive wiper..I set it to wipe free space..It ran for 25 minutes, and now I have a black screen with nothing. I have no idea what to do,
I presume you've had no trubbs with CC Drive Wiper previously, that you set it to wipe OS(C:) free space 1-pass, and that it was running fine and suddenly the monitor blanked. Correct?
Fill us in on any more details you have, like did you reboot the pc and all else is well, etc? I'm trying to fathom the issue with the little info you provided.
I set drive wipe to clean the MFT and C free space 1 pass, Everything was fine until I rebooted then I got a black screen. I believe it has something to do with the display driver as the keyboard flashes, I have sent for a XP Pro boot recovery disk but not sure if that is going to help
Are you able to access your pc at all?
Safe mode?
Is it a laptop or pc?
Have you tried a different monitor?
Do you have data you need on this machine? If so boot from a linux live cd and copy over your data to an external drive or large flash drive.
Your data has to be number one priority then after that we try other things.
Here is an expanation on how to do this here, don't be overwhelmed just read it through a couple of times.
How to make the livecd
http://datarecoverytoronto.org/data-recovery-toronto-overview-linux-live-cd%E2%80%99s/
How to use it....
http://datarecoverytoronto.org/use-a-linux-live-cd-to-recover-your-files/
Everything was fine until I rebooted then I got a black screen.
Did the Drive Wiper run through to a normal conclusion,
and was the computer then running normally under your control until you chose to reboot,
or did the Drive Wiper do stuff until it concluded with a reboot and disaster ?
OK thanks for your help. It appears the problem is my monitor or the monitors power supply.. I pulled the plug on the computer and monitor and let it sit for 24 hrs. IT is a Planar monitor and has an external power supply. It booted up and ran fine for about 4 hrs then went blank again. I am going to try another power supply and if that does not work Ill pick up another monitor.. I suppose it was just a coincidence that after I ran drive wiper and rebooted the screen went blank. I an drive wiper on this laptop and everything works fine. Sorry for the false alarm...
Thank you Billuk for posting back and letting us know what you think happened
does the entire drive wipe remove windows? i need to know before trying because i dont have a functional disk drive
does the entire drive wipe remove windows? i need to know before trying because i dont have a functional disk drive
Detailed here what it does in this post:
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=30444&page=1&do=findComment&comment=182297
There's also the docs site of what it does:
http://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/using-ccleaner/wiping-free-disk-space
If you only wish to wipe free space and leave the Windows OS fully intact I'd recommend using Method 1 (Automatically wipe when cleaning) from the docs link above aka "Wipe Free Space" instead located in 'Options > Settings' where you select the drives to run it on, then you'd need to enable it in 'Cleaner > Windows (tab) > Advanced' by ticking Wipe Free Space. Remember to untick Wipe Free Space in 'Cleaner > Windows (tab) > Advanced' once finished so that it doesn't run everytime you run CCleaner.