The headers on your file allocation table files are replaced with a special character. This character tells the operating system not toread any files still on the disk. At this point, files can still be recovered. Only if the files are written over will the files be altered and rendered unreadable. If an algorithm is used to write over the files, it may be necessary to write more than once. Otherwise, a decryption algorithm can be used and the files reconstructed.
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∙ 11y agoThere are two different ways how you can format a floppy drive (virtually any drive which can be formatted). The first way is so called "quick formating" which clears the file table (marks each sector such as it's available for writing) on the formated disk but files are still on the disk. Operating system cannot see them because the file table is empty but using a special software you can restore those files if nothing was saved on the disk after formatting (it's exactly how restoring software works). The second way is actually a low level formatting which is actually erases information from drives forever. There is no chance to restore information after such formatting.
Even a full format will not necessarily destroy the data, as some file recovery utilities can detect magnetic patterns on the media from weakly deleted files. The only method to securely eradicate the data is to use a utility that redundantly overwrites the data with other data (usually overwrites every byte with a zero value byte). A good such utility will allow you to select the number of times the data is overwritten, and the method used to do so.
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∙ 13y agothe same thing that happens when you format anything. all data is deleted
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∙ 8y agoIt means writing the electronic information on the disk so that the computer can recognize the disk as being valid
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∙ 9y agoAll the data in the floppy disk will be deleted permanently.
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∙ 13y agoRemoves all data.
Typically, the A drive is the floppy drive; the C drive is the hard drive; and the D drive is the CD drive.
HDD stands for Hard Disk Drive... FDD stands for Floppy Disk Drive...
By formatting the hard drive.
No. Floppy drisks do not need any formatting at all. Just pop it into the floppy drive and that's all you need to do.
You can completely clear your external hard drive by formatting it.
There are several guides online for formatting a floppy drive. WikiHow has step by step instructions with visual aids to complete the task properly. The website BleepingComputer can also help.
This simply isn't possible. Hard drives and floppy drives work in very different ways.
No. The floppy drive interface and the mini-ata interface on many 2.5 inch hard disks may appear compatible, but they are not.
Formatting prepares a floppy disk to store data
Hard drive, Disk drive and FLoppy disk drive
Yes.
You can't actually reformat when it's off. You'll need to power it up with a bootable CD or floppy disk which has the format command available. Besides, what you are formatting is the hard drive, not the computer. Or you can remove the hard drive from the computer in question and format it in another computer.