Disk Wiper says aborted after completing a wipe

doc

When I run Disk Wiper it always completes and displays a line that signifies it has finised. Right under that line it displays another line that says aborted.

What does this indicate. Does it mean it did not complete the wipe or what?

pdl

I have the identical question, but in addition, when trying to wipe a USB drive, while it showed the progress of writing to disk, nothing on the drive was actually erased!

kdd6

same problem here. i did a wipe on my d:\ drive and when i ran a restore function over 500 files showed up. it appears that there is a problem with this particular function. can it be fixed?

kdd6

jv16

This problem is now fixed, thank you all for reporting. The bug is a minor user interface bug, the tool always says "procedure aborted" when it's done, this doesn't mean that it was aborted.

jv16

pdl wrote
I have the identical question, but in addition, when trying to wipe a USB drive, while it showed the progress of writing to disk, nothing on the drive was actually erased!

Could you please give me some more information relating to this problem? Such as what exactly did you do, what settings did you use the Disk Wiper with, what kind of USB drive you tried to wipe and how did you determine that nothing was actually erased? Did you let the wiper run as long as it did, or did you abort it?

pdl

I was trying to wipe a Sony USB 2.0 512MB stick drive. It has no model number on it, uses Microsoft 5.1.2535.0 driver.

The setting I used was "Wipe All Data", and it ran to completion. I found that it had not been erased by opening it in Windows Explorer -- all files were still there.

Hope this helps,

pdl