Unable to overwrite delete files after a reformat

[Ticky]

I wonder if someone could give me an answer to the following question please?

 

After running Recuva on a recently reformatted hard drive using the -- "Scan for non-deleted files (for recovery from damaged or reformatted disks) -- option, I found a large number of files and e-mails going back many years.

 

As I wish to securely overwrite these I ?checked? all the files, right-clicked on the mouse to bring up the Options Menu - and found that both the options to carry out the overwrite procedure were 'greyed' out and unavailable.

 

Could you tell me please if there is a 'bug' in the program stopping this, or is it just not possible to use the overwrite procedure in this case for a specific reason - and if there is no bug or reason, tell me how to go about it.

 

 

Many thanks

 

Ticky

 

(A 'newbie' to this forum)

[DennisD]

Hi Ticky, and welcome to Piriform.

 

This can happen if you use Thunderbird. Have a read here, and I'm hoping this is your problem.

 

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showto...mp;#entry143416

 

Recuva was last updated on 15th September 2009 to v1.30.435, which fixes this problem apparently.

 

http://www.filehippo.com/download_recuva/