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.
The options for multiple passes will be greyed out because it's seeing the drive as an SSD and more than one pass could be damaging to the lifetime of the SDD. I can still select multiple passes here for my HDDs. Think of it a bit like washing clothes multiple times; a cotton shirt would be fine with that but a silk shirt would get damaged if you washed it too often.
As Augeas says one pass is more than sufficent to wipe a drive anyway, SDD or HDD, multiple passes are just overkill and a waste of your time. Like washing a shirt multiple times would be a wase of time. And the next question is usually ' So why does CCleaner have the option for multiple passes?
And because some people still want the option because they don't understand that multiple passes are unneccessary these days. Worried about 'Tracking Files'? Worried about why some files come back after cleaning?
You can hear them make hard drive noises when you are accessing them. Western Digital MyBooks for example. The first result when I googled this problem was from , so this has been a problem with CCleaner for at-least 5 years.
Why you think that a reply to the original poster about his drive being seen as a SDD and so some options being greyed out has anything whatsoever to do with your hard drive is baffling?
You don't even say if you are having an issue or not, so all I will note is that wiping free space on a 10TB hard drive is going to take a long time. Sign up for a new account in our community.
It's easy! Already have an account? Sign in here. By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use. Share More sharing options Followers 1. Recommended Posts. Posted July 4, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Do you know how to wipe a hard drive conveniently and safely?
Do you know what tool you can use when you really need to wipe free space? When you delete a file on your computer, you are just removing the indexes and the links to the file, rather than the actual data that makes up the file on your hard drive. Even though Windows cannot figure out the location of the file, the file still exists on your hard drive indeed.
So, given the right recovery software, even an ordinary user who gets your computer could also reconstruct the files you deleted.
This kind of tool will scan your hard drive, look for the files and restore the links and indexes so the deleted files could be available and editable again.
However, Windows gets permission to overwrite the area containing the deleted file on the hard drive. This means that you can make the data you have deleted unrecoverable by overwriting the free space, or commonly known as wiping free space. Although there are several ways to keep your digital data secure , disk wipe is your best choice in this case. Besides, I will display how to wipe a hard drive using Command Prompt and another professional hard drive wipe software — MiniTool Partition Wizard.
CCleaner is a popular Windows optimization and cleaning utility. Also, it provides a tool called Drive Wiper that allows you to wipe your hard drive securely. You need to aware that CCleaner has been hacked to spread malware to users of the bit version. The hackers were able to inject the malware into the application by accessing the download servers used by the antivirus provider Avast the parent company that owns CCleaner , according to the security researchers at Cisco Talos Group.
CCleaner is still a useful and reliable hard drive wipe software, only if you can disarm the threat by keeping it as the latest version.
Step 1 : Update to or download the latest version of CCleaner. Then open the program to get its main interface. Step 2 : Click Tools from the left pane and choose Drive Wiper. Step 4 : Select a particular type of overwriting procedure you prefer from the Security drop-down list.
Here are 4 types available:. Sign in here. By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. Posted May 8, Hello all First post here and as well am hardly a knowledgeable person on cCleaner or power user of it so this is probably a silly question but. So is this what something like the Drive Wiper in using the Free Space option is for?
Thanks for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Posted May 11, No fate but what we make. Posted May 12, You are being far to clever.
I think you are raising needless fears. Augeas Posted May 12, Posted May 13, The whole thing ran at Baud with 2 Stop Bits 8 data bits and 1 start bit, good for 10 c. If I was not first in at work a colleague would snaffle the good ASR33 and I was left with the worn out stand by, and I had to configure my microcomputer to deliver 7 stop bits so the ASR33 printer could keep up at less than 7 c.
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