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To: Esteban who wrote (37932)	11/18/2003 12:38:06 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

"Low Level" format ... to format a drive... - re: Question: Can data be recovered from a hard drive that... Answer: ...a quick format, only the... - Esteban, - I'am sure that i will confuse the topic of removing data we have on disks before we give the disks to others, but incase someone wants more insight into this stuff, I'll add more info here with warning it may be incorrect, and i need help to understand it :o) - My understanding is that "Low Level" format programs are only used for hard disks, not floppies, but I'am coming from a Windows 3.1 era where DOS 5 has FDISK.EXE which I used to void out the structure of the hard drive that came with my pc having DOS & Windows installed so that I could make two logical hard drives from the single hard drive of my pc and be able to boot the DOS or a very small Unix. - I think the real answer we all need is to find a shareware format program that will run ones & zeros patterns on that prior used 3 inch floppy we have that we want to reload something else to give to another person and not worry that they might try and read what was on it before. - I'am quite sure that old DOS FDISK program is available in all the Windows prior to the latest XP, and if so then one can make a bootable floppy with FDISK loaded on it and run patterns on the hard drive to really erase the data. - Not sure what this is, but it does talk about hard drive etc. fdisk.com Doug