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Originally posted by munchini
if you really wanna format.. do a zero fill - replaces every bit with a zero - ensures that everything is erased if you're paranoid about that kind of thing
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Actually, a skilled person with a STEM (scanning tunneling electron microscope) could still extract the data.
The tried-and-true way to get rid of data permanently is to write 00 and then FF (hex digits - two is one byte).. 7 times in a row. Why the magic number 7? Not sure...
Well, if you want to be extremely paranoid... you can melt the drives.
