Guest Pierre Posted September 28, 2007 Posted September 28, 2007 hi, I found many tools to wipe free space on disk (space left by deleted files) but found none which also deletes filenames of the files in the free disk space (these filenames may be seen with any undele tool) is it possible to also remove filenames ? if so with what tool ? TIA Pierre
Guest John McGaw Posted September 28, 2007 Posted September 28, 2007 Re: wipe out deleted file name Pierre wrote: > hi, > > I found many tools to wipe free space on disk (space left by deleted > files) but found none which also deletes filenames of the files in the > free disk space (these filenames may be seen with any undele tool) > > is it possible to also remove filenames ? if so with what tool ? > > TIA > Pierre > Which undelete programs have you experienced this with? I have not tried many of them but I know that the program "eraser", when used to wipe free space, leaves no traces which an undelete program such as "restoration" can put a name to. All that is left at the end of an eraser run are whatever scraps the operating system has worked with in the mean time. http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ John McGaw http://johnmcgaw.com
Guest Pierre Posted September 28, 2007 Posted September 28, 2007 Re: wipe out deleted file name On Sep 28, 8:03 pm, John McGaw <nowh...@at.all> wrote: > Pierre wrote: > > hi, > > > I found many tools to wipe free space on disk (space left by deleted > > files) but found none which also deletes filenames of the files in the > > free disk space (these filenames may be seen with any undele tool) > > > is it possible to also remove filenames ? if so with what tool ? > > > TIA > > Pierre > > Which undelete programs have you experienced this with? EasyRecovery DataRecovery version 6.10 > I have not tried many of them but I know that the program "eraser", > when used to wipe free space, leaves no traces which an undelete > program such as "restoration" can put a name to. All that is left at > the end of an eraser run are whatever scraps the operating system > has worked with in the mean time. I've just downloaded "eraser" and tried it: when I ask it to wipe free space, "eraser" crach after about 6% of it works. I tried many tiemes with the same result. the disk on which I'm trying to wipe free space is a 320GB USB external drive with ~150GB free space I'm running XPSP2 > http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ > > John McGawhttp://johnmcgaw.com
Guest John McGaw Posted September 28, 2007 Posted September 28, 2007 Re: wipe out deleted file name Pierre wrote: > On Sep 28, 8:03 pm, John McGaw <nowh...@at.all> wrote: >> Pierre wrote: >>> hi, >>> I found many tools to wipe free space on disk (space left by deleted >>> files) but found none which also deletes filenames of the files in the >>> free disk space (these filenames may be seen with any undele tool) >>> is it possible to also remove filenames ? if so with what tool ? >>> TIA >>> Pierre >> Which undelete programs have you experienced this with? > > EasyRecovery DataRecovery version 6.10 > >> I have not tried many of them but I know that the program "eraser", >> when used to wipe free space, leaves no traces which an undelete >> program such as "restoration" can put a name to. All that is left at >> the end of an eraser run are whatever scraps the operating system >> has worked with in the mean time. > > I've just downloaded "eraser" and tried it: when I ask it to wipe free > space, "eraser" crach after about 6% of it works. I tried many tiemes > with the same result. > the disk on which I'm trying to wipe free space is a 320GB USB > external drive with ~150GB free space > > I'm running XPSP2 > >> http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ >> >> John McGawhttp://johnmcgaw.com > > I've not experienced any problems with eraser. I've erased the free space on drives up to 400gB with no errors although I have not tried it with any external drives. Have you done a "chkdsk" on the drive in question? There could be some error in the drive's structure if you have been repeatedly using other programs to erase/recover with it. Other than that I can only suggest reporting the problem to the website where you downloaded the program.
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