Hi Glen, Thank you very much for your reply. I've done this several times on various operating systems & never had a problem but, that doesn't mean it won't happen for a 1st time. With my luck, I'll probably screw this OS up! LOL, hahaha hahaha hahaha, LOL Take care. Mike This email was sent from my, iBarstool.
----- Original Message ----- From: Dialup @ 56k To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] CCleaner & Its Drive Wiper Tool Hello Mike, I would urge extreme caution doing such things to a boot drive. Remember that Windoze utilises free space to do lots of house keeping, and there are lots of thing stored temporarily in RAM / cache. I would expect Windoze to behave very defensively in this situation. Glen Barwick *** On 05-Aug-14 11:18 AM, Mike B. wrote: > Hi David & Al, > Yes that is true but, you can wipe all the free space on the boot drive & > that's what I'm having trouble with. If I choose the, Simple Overwrite 1 > Pass option, the wipe completes successfully but, any more passes than 1 & > that's when I get the message I mentioned in my original post. You can > choose Simple Overwrite 1 Pass, Advanced Overwrite 3 Passes, Complex > Overwrite 7 Passes or, Very Complex Overwrite 35 Passes. I can only get > the > single pass to complete. Thank you very much for your reply. > Take care. > Mike > This email was sent from my, iBarstool. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Ferrin > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 3:45 PM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] CCleaner & Its Drive Wiper Tool > > > You can't wipe the drive you have booted off of, it just normally won't > work. At least I have never seen it work before. It has to be a secondary > drive. > > David Ferrin > [email protected] > Always be yourself because the people that matter don't mind, and the ones > that mind don't matter. > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Mike B. > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 4:52 PM > To: Jaws-Users List > Subject: [JAWS-Users] CCleaner & Its Drive Wiper Tool > > Hi All, > > I am trying to use CCleaner's Drive Wiper tool & keep getting the > following > message at around 50% when using the Advanced or Complex Overwrite > options: > > *** > CCleaner > The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a > portion of the file. > OK > *** > > Jaws does not tell me which process is locking out the Drive Wiper > process. > Is CCleaner supposed to show me which process is locking out the Drive > Wiper > process & Jaws just is not able to see it? I have tried with both my Anti > Virus disabled & enabled with the same results. I'm running XP Pro Jaws > 13, > & CCleaner 4.16. Has anyone ran across this & knows what process might be > causing the locking out of the Drive Wiper process? Any help would be > greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. > > Take care. > Mike > This email was sent from my, iBarstool. > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
