Just installed this trial version. First job I tried was to wipe the blank part of hard drive. It stopped (not responding twice) then came back with a message that it would take 18 hours to complete. I cancelled the process.
Not a good start. Running Windows 7 Home Premium, plenty of space and other things are running fine. Using Explorer and Live Mail.
Is there some place I had better go to find out what's wrong already? Or should I uninstall and download again?
Thank you. It is the free version - I thought I would try before I buy the Pro. C:\drive says 857Gb free of 920. I chose the one pass option. It just went on forever all the time adding time to how long it would take to complete...then stopped altogether.
I really thank you for the link to the guide. That will help a lot. I'm quite a beginner and scared to death of this type of software. (I did have the sense to backup first.)
Just under one gb a minute (875 gb in 18 hrs) is not actually that bad. It's not as if it's a clean vanilla write. If the live files are widely distributed across the disk then there's a lot of small holes to fill in, which adds to the time. Just run it overnight to completion.
Thanks for your help. I'm too much of a novice to start messing around with partitions
Some extra info for you then: Around here we recommend making disk image backups of your system drive, the drive where Windows is installed. There's different freeware disk imaging software such as Macrium Reflect Free Edition, Drive Image XML Private Free Edition, etc., that can literally save the day if something catastrophic happens either user inflicted, from some software, or malware.