I just bought a little 8gb pen drive as I am formatting my computer and need to secure my work . It copied some of the data, but then half way through it started to hang up and it failed the transfer. so i tried to copy them one by one, but each time the transfer would hang up and not work.
The data I am transferring is audio, WAV
then i deleted the files that were on the drive, but the data was still some how on the disc, maybe it has kept a ghost copy of the data there, like deleted files that stay on there.
<s>So i opened up disk utility to format the drive, but this also failed, it said this:
secure erase free space failed: error: could not create temp file</s>
actually i just worked out what i did wrong....
The data I am transferring is audio, WAV
then i deleted the files that were on the drive, but the data was still some how on the disc, maybe it has kept a ghost copy of the data there, like deleted files that stay on there.
<s>So i opened up disk utility to format the drive, but this also failed, it said this:
secure erase free space failed: error: could not create temp file</s>
actually i just worked out what i did wrong....