I have used drive wiper to overwrite deleted files with one pass. Then I used recuva and it recovered what was supposed to be gone. So I tried 3 passes with drive wiper and after a couple of hours (78% complete) I got an error that says, "The requested operation could not be completed because of a file system limitation." I've tried this several times with the same result. Any ideas? Thanks...
Win 7, 2.27GHz I5 processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB hard drive
Why are you doing this?
I am trying to recommend a solution to clients who want to shred files.
[opinion]The Wipe Drive Isn't really good for file shredding. It is a sledge hammer (smashing all deleted files) when really someone might want to only kill a few files. [/opinion]
On top of that multiple runnings of wipedrive and/or wipe freespace will greatly reduce the life of your drive. WFS Has been known to remove restore points and can make your systems temporaraly sluggish while wiping.
[opinion]personally I would not count ccleaner as a shredder.[/opinion] it is a remover of junk which happens to have a tool (Wipedrive/WipeFreeSpace) which can be used to prep a harddrive for sale.