Acronis DriveCleanser hangs with seconds to go....
I am using DriveCleanser included with Acronis True Image 2019. I have attempted to wipe a 3TB HDD twice. Both times the process froze with seconds to go till completion of operation 1 of 2. I have tried running DriveCleanser from Windows 10 to wipe, froze and did not complete. I created an Acronis Rescue Media USB and booted from that device. I then launched DriverCleanser and got the same result - froze and did not complete. I have included a picture of the screen showing the freeze.
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Steve Smith wrote:The alternative approach if a drive is being 'binned' is to use a ball-pein hammer to render the drive unusable for anything other than scrap metal or a door-stop!
This is my preferred solution. When it comes to HDDs/SSDs I am only dispose of them when they become so antiquated that they are useless to me or anyone else. I still have some old IDE HDDs and a couple of first generation SATA HDDS.
Ian
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