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John Clarke (Jclarke)
Posted on Saturday, Jan 15, 2005 - 22:30:   
When I initialize slack space on my boot drive, I get a message the 4GB out of 20GB free space could not be initialized. I did run chkdsk /f /r before using the winhex program.
Any reason for this?
Any implications?

Thanks.

John
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Stefan Fleischmann (Admin)
Posted on Sunday, Jan 16, 2005 - 3:22:   
(I assume you are referring to free drive space = free clusters, not slack space.)

I could imagine, if your recycle bin settings are to delete files from the recycle bin when disk space becomes low, and the recycle bin is emptied just when WinHex completes allocating and initializing free space, WinHex finds an unexpected amount of free space although it thought it had completed the operation. It would then report "Unable to securely erase x MB/GB out of y MB/GB free space." Just an idea. You could try once more.

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