Hello all! I used Driver Wiper in CCleaner V4.09.4471 to wipe the Free Space on computer, but to my greatest surprise, I lost all the free space on computer! How do I recover my free space? I use Windows 7. Can v4.10 help? Urgent help needed.
It's possibly because the wipe operation was interrupted. There may be a very large file on the root drive with a creation date of the CC run and with a long random file name. Delete this. I think that re-running the drive wipe has the same effect.
I updated this morning to CCleaner V4.09.4471 Professional free trial. I used the cleaner 1st + it worked fine, then the registry cleaner + so on...Then I got to the wipe drive. I set this for 1 pass as not used before + it took about 3 hours..Ok, I thought, hopefully it's doing good. Like Genezus above, I had before I started, 733GB of space on my drive. At one point, when it was nearing the end of a very long process, I had 700GB left, losing 33GB...
Just as it was counting down the seconds to finish, (I waited with bated breath) A box came up on screen saying, 'CCleaner....Access Denied' with an 'OK' button. I had no choice but to click 'OK' + the program stops dead...No message or anything. Like a fool, I thought I will try it again + went through all that palaver, for another, nearly 4 hours..!!! + it did the same 'Access Denied' + stopped the 2nd time...I did however get my space back in my drive, but it hasn't cleaned anything, just, what looked like spending nearly 8 hours scanning, telling me I could get back about 770....odd mb off my drive...
I'm hoping that there is a solusion to this....Had I known that it was going to take all night to do nothing, I would have left it till I had finished working on my pc, instead of running that 1st... HELP!!!! Lmao
1.) In response to both Genezus and Lyngypsy - If you ever encounter the situation where a drive wipe leaves you with little or no free disk space, follow the advice already given by Augeas - look for an extremely large file with a nonsensical filename at the root of C: drive - an example of what to look for is here: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2dl8xua&s=6#.Uvk1p-mPI5u You may find that you are unable to send it to the Recycle Bin due to it's size, in that case highlight the file and use "Shift+Delete" to delete it.
2.) In response to Lyngypsy - By chance, are you using Avast as your antivirus software? There was a thread on this forum not that long ago describing a conflict between CCleaner and Avast where the author described the same message you have, "Access is Denied". I don't use Avast myself, so I'm not sure exactly what must be done to resolve the problem, but the issue seemed to be Avast denying CCleaner permission to run. The thread is here: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=39741&hl=%2Baccess+%2Bdenied
3.) In response to everyone - Why do people use 100% of their hard drive for Windows? You don't have to. If you want a drive wipe to be performed in a reasonable amount of time, then it follows you should make C: partition a reasonable size. If Windows occupies 30 to 60 GB on your drive, think about shrinking C: partition down to 100-200GB, or whatever you think is reasonable. If you do this, you need to do two things first: defragment C: partition to move the files closer to the beginning of the drive, and allocate a larger percentage of the drive for system restore points. (Example: 1% of 1000GB=10GB, whereas 10% of 100GB=10GB. Understand?) Then shrink C: partition.
And to Genezus and Lyngypsy - Hello and welcome to the forum!