Why does Drive Whiper only whip 219MB?

CCleaner for Windows
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Dear everyone,

When I use Drive Wiper, under Tools > Drive Wiper, to do a Free Space Only wipe on my C: drive it it start but only does 219.401MB for some reason. Even though my 500GB harddrive has 214GB of freespace. So I was wondering how I get it to whipe the entire free space?

Secondary issue that might be related. Right clicking on my C: drive gives me 251GB used 214GB available. However when I count all the files I have up by hand it hovers around 65GB. Lets give it some room for error and make it 100GB. Thats a pretty big margin of diffrence between 100GB used and 214GB used. So whats happening?

Additional information:

Windows XP SP3

AMD Athlon 64 FX-62

3,5GB RAM

500GB Western Digital HDD

defragged regularly

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You can't wipe your system (C:) drive (it's in use). You need some bootable software/tool for that.

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I am not doing a full wipe, just a free space one, no files are lost. In other words the I am trying to wipe the space where files use to be but are no longer.

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Oh yeah true, my mistake. :D

Which CCleaner version?

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Oh yeah true, my mistake. :D

Which CCleaner version?

Np :P

The version is v3.18.1707

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Is it getting to 100%?

in other words are you seeing something like this (artist's render)

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How long does the wipe free space take? Are you sure it's 209.401 mb and not 209,401 mb?

I don't know how you counted 85 gb of files 'by hand', but there may be system or oter protected files you have missed, op sys, sys restore etc. I woldn't count up file sizes if you paid me.

(PS Please don't bump threads.)

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Is it getting to 100%?

in other words are you seeing something like this (artist's render)

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Yes.

How long does the wipe free space take? Are you sure it's 209.401 mb and not 209,401 mb?

About 15 minutes

Heres a image of what is happening http://i.imgur.com/TZQH3.png

For some reason its no longer displaying the amount of MB it is whiping. I dont know why. It still finishes as usual.

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OK, can you run Recuva to see what deleted files it can find after the wfs?

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The image suggest to me that perhaps you are not wiping all of the free space but only the MFT which is a much smaller animal.

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Indeed, but wipe MFT and wfs are not separable, are they?

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Perhaps you cannot GET one without the other,

but you can SELECT only MFT on CC version 3.16.1666 (64-bit).

Under Tools => Drive Wiper I can select "Free Space Only" and "Simple Overwrite (1 pass) and I leave each Drive UN-checked.

Under Options => Settings I can check "Wipe MFT Free Space" independently of whether any Drives are selected for Wipe Free Space.

I refuse to predict or even test what Drive Wiper will do.

I only used it once and the only thing it got right was to wipe all the contents of a FAT32 partition.

Regrettably it chose the wrong device - I had selected a 2 GB Flash Drive and it took out a partition on my Internal HDD.

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Are you sure it's 209.401 mb and not 209,401 mb

This is the answer, your OS is running in german therefore the Number format is a period between thousands not a comma.

In Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Greece and much of Europe: 1 234 567,89 or 1.234.567,89.

Thus your free space which is relatively 200 GB is being cleaned, I hope you have not continually be rewiping as this WILL end up bringing the life of you drive to a shorter time period.