What happens if one does an incomplete Windows install, i.e. only up to after the disk formatting step? Does that overwrite the data on the disk? Quoting Kai Ponte <kai@perfectreign.com>:
On Thursday 27 March 2008 07:48:47 am Bob Rea wrote:
U.S. government SECRET requires a low-level format.
How does one do a low level format? I got asked to do this at work but no one would tell me how.
Typically that's at the BIOS level. You do this from there.
However, pretty much any modern drive should not be low-level formatted since the manufacturers add crap that could be lost if you do such an item.
I haven't low-level formatted a drive since the turn of the century.
You might look at zero fill. I've used this pretty successfully, after booting from a live CD.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M
Or you can shred: shred -n 2 -z -v /dev/hda1
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_shred.htm
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2F2006%...
And another thing. You notice all the stuff I deleted from previous messages. Wading through all that already-read cruft makes me wish for people to top post so I can see what they have to say without wading through verbal quicksand to the bottom of the post.
That has more to do with incorrect quoting than top poasting...
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