deleted c partition, trying to reformat

['G']

I beta test for East Technologies and they have come out with a new version of their zero fill, and more, program called DiskSanitizer Gov V3

http://www.east-tec.com/sanitizer/download.htm

You can go from a single unchecked zero fill pass through to Gutmann.

I would go with the Naval RLL 3 pass setting to make sure nothing is recoverable from your HDD. This will disturb the magnetic flux of the media enough so recovery is almost impossible.

It really is a nice program and your can test it for free.

[Messiah89]

If you remove partitions you can still get that data back?

[elroy]

Just for future reference: Your drive was set up as follows
C: primary partition- active
D: logical partition on top of an extended partition
you would need to remove the logical partition and then remove the extended partition

OR FOR EXAMPLE

if you had C,D,E and F
you would have the primary partition- C:
and one extended partiton with 3 logical partitions- D,E and F

"If you remove partitions you can still get that data back?"

Yes the data can be recovered.

[Gilthanaz]

I've got sort of a related question. Does format /u do a zero write? If not, how is it different from a regular format?

[Jarhed7276]

There isn't a u switch in the format command. There is a v switch that allows you to name the volume.

Type format /? at a dos or command prompt for details of the format command.

[John Prophet]

ahh..there is a "u" switch..its just one of those undocumented switches

see http://www.oldstuff.myagora.net/powe...fat32/fat9.htm

FORMAT /U parameter performs an UNCONDITIONAL format, which DESTROYS every byte of data on a disk by overwriting it with <-----(I think they didnt finish the sentance, lol)

and http://www.vfrazee.com/ms-dos/6.22/help/format.htm



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WARNING: You CANNOT UNFORMAT a disk formatted using the /U option!

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JP

[macko]

Did you sell the computer to the government? If not, I would not worry so much. I doubt there are many people out there who would even know how to, or even bother to, recover data from a formatted hard drive.