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Stop trusting 'quick format': Why your wiped drive is still full of data
Here's how to properly wipe a drive before selling it ...
I partitioned my 80 gig HDD, and I allotted 30 Gigs for the OS (win 2k pro) and program files, and I allotted about 45 gigs to mp3s and movies and what not... the second disk partition i used quick ...
I'm a bit confused as to how quick-formatting works with RAID drives and when you need to do a full format.<BR><BR>I have two identical Seagate 320 Gb drives. When I added one of them to my system, ...
Windows 8's Quick Format option marks occupied hard drive sectors as available, but it doesn't actually wipe the files that occupy the sectors. A tech-savvy user could still access and view the files ...
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