Re: Cleansing W2K System for Resale

Hi Airman T,

.........Speaking of that, what about FDISK? Is that recoverable?

Good quesion. I don't have a clue what people have used to format the disks I come across. There was one once upon a time one that I couldn't get anything off, but I don't recall if there may have been another problem with it or not.

With three or four different ways to hide old info on disks, formatting, overwriting, deleting etc., I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of them did a better job than another.

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