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Wipe Free Space not working?


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I've cleaned a drive and used the Wipe Free Space option, which says it has wiped the drive correctly.

 

But using Recova, I can still see the filenames and the content is the original, so it's not removing either the data or directory entry from the drive.

 

Am I doing something wrong?

 

 

 

 

Jim

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Just wondering if these were files held in the MFT, but at 500mb the answer is no. Assuming that the wipe completed successfully (i.e checkboxes all ticked, takes some hours to run) I have no great, or even less than great, ideas.

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