Laptop hibernates during drive wipe

Sorry to raise an old thread...

I've run drive wiper on my laptop. As warned, it takes a long time. Fine.

Trouble is, if I leave it running my laptop does not seem to recognise it is running and puts itself to sleep. SoI come back 2 hours later to find thelaptop asleep, drive wiper "10% complete" and nothing happenibg.

Wake it up, and drive wiper starts running again. Go off to do some gardening and come back.... laptop asleep and drive wiper stalled at 13%!

Tried leaving it running overnight: waste of time!

it's always nice to start your own thread if the problem is different from the one being discussed.

but, have you tried changing the power options so the laptop doesn't go to sleep, just to get you over this hurdle.

also, do you really need to wipe the drive, that is, what is it you are wanting to achieve.