Re: Cleansing W2K System for Resale

PA20Pilot wrote:
Hi Sid Knee,

........Surely a low-level format (not a regular post-partitioning format)using the hd manufacturer's disk utilities effectively overwrites any data that's there?

I wouldn't assume that. All a format is doing is dividing the disk into sections that can be written to and telling the software it's no longer used space to work around, not scrambling the magnetic information that's already there.

I think you are describing a regular format there, Jim, not a low level format. The manufacturer's low level format utility works at a lower level and (I believe) leaves the the disk surface in the state it was in when it left the factory ... fully erased and unpartitioned.

It certainly takes a very long time to do it.
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