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PGP won't wipe free space
Name: TrevD Date: December 4, 2003 at 21:29:29 Pacific OS: WinMe - 4.90.3000 CPU/Ram: AMD 1.1 T-Bird, 384MB PC1
Comment:
When I try to do a free space wipe, it tells me "Wiping could not be completed successfully. The file allocation table has invalid entries and the free space cannot be safely wiped."
I have done thorough surface scans in Windows and in DOS.
Has anyone else come across this problem with PGP, or is PGP really the only one who can see the FAT problems?
Name: CyberRax Date: December 5, 2003 at 00:50:45 Pacific
Reply:
1) A surface scan is unneccesary. Do the regular scan with ScanDisk. If it still doesn't find anything try something better (NDD from the Norton Utilities for example).
2) It *might* be that your HD is too fragmented for PGP. So run a defragmenter (Winsux' own or some 3rd party's)
3) If still no success get some other wiper. (I myself use Eraser 5.7, a quite decent space- and file-wiper). Because let's face it: PGP is and has always been an ecryption program. The wiper-part is just add-on.
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Response Number 2
Name: TrevD Date: December 5, 2003 at 16:58:46 Pacific
Reply:
Well I said I did a surface scan because it means that I've therefore done regular and surface so that someone does't just say "do a scan" like you did.
Anyway, is there anything like NDD which is free? I don't really want to pay for something if it turns out there isn't even anything wrong. I also don't really want McAfee or Norton, as I've heard they can take over things and can be a real pain to get rid of.
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Name: TrevD Date: December 6, 2003 at 15:48:50 Pacific
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