drive wiper

CCleaner for Windows
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not sure if i am in the right pace but drive wiper just keeps on running unless i stop it, it get to 100 percent then starts over ,

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You'll have to give a bit more info than that :)

Operating system used.

Version build of ccleaner used.

What drive etc were you wiping.

Is this the first time you have used ccleaner?

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How big the drive and the amount of free space would also be nice to know

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I wonder if it stops the "start over" after completing 35 passes :rolleyes:

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Thanks Chap's and chap s,s i'm new here ,windows seven home premium, Samsung chronos laptop,its the first time i ve used the wiper, and happens in both c and d DIVE

362 GB FREE C DRIVE, 544 D DRIVE

VERSION 3.21 1767 64 BIT

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Do you have secure deletion enabled?

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sorry secure deletion loses me ,i selected the wiper and ,delete free space only and simple overwrite one pass only

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I came across one instance of something similar in a topic from a few years ago, and the cause seemed to be partly due to the user having compressed the drive.

I'm not on my desktop at the moment so don't have the bookmark for that topic. Does Win7 have the same "Compress Drive" to save space type feature?

Do you have both drives checked to do the free space wipe? I'm not sure if you can check them to run consecutively (only one drive on this laptop), but if so I'm wondering if CCleaner is going in a circle and starting with the first again when the second completes.

Yea, very weak I know, but I've never seen this happen before. :)

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Does Win7 have the same "Compress Drive" to save space type feature?

Yes.

When I select the properties of C:\ there is such a checkbox immediately above "Allow files ... contents indexed"

N.B. If Windows drive compression causes grief then Bitlocker and TrueCrypt Drive encryption technology may also have consequences :o

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I'm looking for that old post to put this into context.

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Found it ...

http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=20744

Uncompressing the drive seemed to fix the WFS issue, but there could have been some other influence which isn't really clear in his posts.

I thought at least it's somewhere to start.