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In demon.tech.pc message <mid274dd90hk07ftjqdhlr66utuj7off11@xxxxxxx>,
Sun, 6 Jul 2008 22:29:40, Anthony R. Gold <not-for-mail@xxxxxxxxxx>
posted:
>I've just started with a new laptop - much like others except a bit more
>memory (2GB) and faster HDD (7.2k SATA) under XP and one behaviour is
>mystifying me - deleting very large files is very slow. By very large I
>mean over 10GB(*) and by slow I mean over 15 minutes.
It seems *possible* that doing the deletion from the Command Prompt
might be quicker.
Also, do you have anything, XP not excluded, which might wipe the
deleted area by repeated overwriting?
Those two suggestions are probably mutually incompatible.
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