Low level formatt

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Carl

Hi All
What is low level formating.
What is the difference between that and regular formatting.
Thanks
 
From what I know it is just a quicker way of formatting.
your information can also be recovered after that.
 
Low Level Format is technically not a good name for what you are talking
about. It is pretty much impossible to do a true low level format on
modern harddrives. What actually happens with these so called "low
level format" utilities, is that 0's are written to all sectors of the
harddrive. This is actually a zero fill utility and not a true low
level format. This erases all data on the drive and is very fast and
efficient. Now if you want to really scrub that sucker, check this out:
http://www.ontrack.com/dataeraser/
 
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