![]() ![]() ![]() taking the hard drive out of the first laptop, then attaching it as an external drive in a case with a usb connection to a second fully functioning laptop, then using ccleaner installed on the second laptop to wipe the drive of the first laptop. I personally think it's a combination problem of both CCleaner and Windows (particularly Windows 10), because even Windows can guess the disk type incorrectly in some circumstances. Or more accurately, 'boot-kits' will hide files in unused areas of your hard drive that are out of the range of your master boot record, so your antivirus never looks there. Almost no-one in the privacy industry talks about what seems logical to beginner me i.e. Only reason I even suggest this is because someone stated long ago uninstalling and reinstalling Defraggler fixed it for them, and sometimes when a new version is released and installed/updated it may mysteriously self-correct the issue. Then see if it detects the drive correctly. Reinstall CCleaner, and also input your license key info. Usually the disk will be marked as the RAW format and a utility like Microsoft's own FDISK would have to be used to repair the disk. This is a long shot however one thing to try, and I haven't the slightest clue if it will even work is to:ģ. Drive wiping/free space wiping tools have the ability to screw up a hard disk if they hang/freeze and even if the user cancels what they're doing. The option is there for hard disk drives only, but it would have to correctly detect that you indeed have a hard disk drive. It's something they'll have to fix in all of their software because even Defraggler will sometimes detect a drive incorrectly. There's no way to change it because it's incorrectly detecting your drive as an SSD, it's a "protection scheme" so people don't kill their SSDs with unnecessary writes. So there is no way to select the provided "7 passes" drive wipe? I wander why is the option there, when one is not able to select it? I have been using cCleaner data wipe feature to erase contents on hdds, Now I need boot drive so I use Active KillDisk, it has 3 options: Wipe unused clusters Erase areas of the hard drive that are not formatted and not currently used by the operating system (data has not been recently written there unless. ![]()
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