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What does "full format operation" do to a disk?
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I ran a "full format operation" (unchecked "quick format") on my disk. Does this remove data in a secure way? I have read answers for related questions and looked on Wikipedia, but am still unclear how it works. I feel like it doesn't fill every byte with zeroes, but instead it just checks for bad …
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A quick format just deletes the allocation table and leaves the files in place. On the other hand the full format DOES NOT go through the whole partition and erase data ON PRE-VISTA VERSIONS OF WINDOWS. What it does is basically scandisk and quick f…
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