June 13, 2024, 9:32 a.m. | /u/RoomProfessional7018

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I have an old hard disk that I want to completely format. I have found online that the windows quick format deletes the partition table and labels all the data as "Available Space", but the data will remain and can be recovered with some recovery tools.

I have also read the windows long format will overwrite every piece of data with zeros amongst other things. But, despite this, some people will do this process several times or even use junk …

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