toddsyr Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 Does Drive Wiper check and repair bad sectors? I'm currently formatting an old hard drive to be used as a backup. If Drive Wiper checks for and repairs bad sectors, great. It will save me from running CheckDisk on a 400 GB hard drive. The 7 pass overwriting is taking long enough! Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted October 21, 2023 Moderators Share Posted October 21, 2023 No, drive wiper does not, to the best of my deep knowledge, do this. ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddsyr Posted October 21, 2023 Author Share Posted October 21, 2023 Well at least now I know. Thank you Nergal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators nukecad Posted October 21, 2023 Moderators Share Posted October 21, 2023 Just to note that 7 pass drive wiping is overkill. One pass is all that is needed with any drive less than 20 years old. The 7 pass (and even 35 pass) are still included for legacy (and paranoia) reasons. Your choice, but it's your own time that you are wasting. To back that up I was doing some testing last week and did a 1 pass wipe of an external HDD using CCleaner Drive Wiper and then tried 3 different recovery tools on it. None of them could recover anything. *** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory *** Worried about 'Tracking Files'? Worried about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link:https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddsyr Posted October 21, 2023 Author Share Posted October 21, 2023 Yeah, I read that today, but I always appreciate the input. It's good for others to read as well. This drive is at least 15 years old though so who knows if it's worth the 7 passes or not. Besides, it's in an external hard drive enclosure, it can take all the time it wants now that I think about it. I can use the regular solid state C drive while it's doing it's thing.. I'm just using it to keep it out of the landfill. I also have everything backed up into my mechanical D drive. All my photo archives etc are also on CD's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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