Quote: Original post by stonegiant
If you did full format, not a quick should be ok

Prior to Vista, the full format didn't change any more data then the quick format did. The full format merely checked every sector for damage.

Quote: Original post by stonegiant
If you did full format, not a quick should be ok, but when rscued get pulled they com from drives formatted not just quick but full. If you used a software like partion magic it can partion drives and just move info around no problemo.
But if it were me, and wanted to totally know for sure, I would do this. remove precious files store on seperate drive then merge all partions on drive back to a single drive, a C drive, then reboot with system install disk, and from cd disk reformat entire drive, it will operate from the cd and rewrite, every one and zero on the entire drive, now drive is fully clear, now partion, now put info on, gotta do it from cd.

Or use a proper tool* to snipe specific files. No need to waste so much time.


*: e.g. available on Parted Magic (or one of those) (every other major distro does include it, too)

Seriously, hard drive space is so cheap these days that if you really have sensitive data you want to get rid of, you might as well toss that old drive into

">a shredder and get a new one. Prices are around 8 cents a gigabyte and falling.