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Odd formatting results
From: irongeek at irongeek.com (Adrian Crenshaw)
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 22:42:45 -0400
I'm not sure, I'm still testing. So far I've only been testing on small flash drives for the sake of speed. I have noticed this, in Vistas command line format there is a /P option for zeroing the drive. This option does not exist in XP, do a format /? to see what I mean. I wonder it /P has somehow become the default? On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Dave Hull <dphull at trustedsignal.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Adrian Crenshaw<irongeek at irongeek.com> wrote:I just went back to verify, using the same SD card once on Vista, once on XP. Vista standard format takes longer, and seems to zero the data space,XPformat is faster and seems to leave the data in place so you can stilldatacarve it. Undocumented feature?Interesting find. Is this only on SSDs? _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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