Friday, October 5, 2012

Erasing or Wiping a Floppy Disk

Apparently there is a new switch to the format command that will let wipe a disk with multiple passes of writing 0 to the sector. For example:

format A: /P:3 /V:

will erase disk A: writing 3 passes of zero on each sector. "/V:" is for blanking the volume label. The disk is still usable but the old data is not recoverable. (Checked with PC Inspector File Recovery) This works with Vista and higher.

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