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Old 23rd March 2013 | 15:11
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Milo Minderbinder
 
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So....lets make sure we've got this right
You were using CCleaner to securely wipe a drive and then pulled the plug midway?
Thats going to leave the drive very confused over its formatting. You'll have to reformat the drive. I'd anticipate a chance of even that not working, and you having to low level format / zero the drive and reinitiate it. You're right - in a drive wipe it first overwrites the drive and then deletes. However it doesn't create a file - it just writes random noise to the drive

And for your information as you clearly don't understand.....the drive wipe option in CCleaner does just that...it wipes the drive. Including system recovery files. If you're lucky it won't have touched any hidden recovery partition, but that depends on how the machine is set up.

CCleaner is an excellent product, but if you do something stupid with it, it'll bite you.
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