Odd formatting results

[joel.folkerts at gmail.com (Joel Folkerts)]

What is the file system? NTFS, FAT16, FAT32? What size is the partition?

-Joel


"The path to hell is paved with good intentions."


On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com>wrote:

> Ok, a few years ago I tested out formatting an SD card from XP, and showed
> how you could file carve the data back off of it because it did not zero the
> bytes.
>
> http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/data-carving-with-photorec-to-retrieve-deleted-files-from-formatted-drives-for-forensics-and-disaster-recovery
>
> I'm testing right now in Vista, and doing a normal format seems to zero out
> the bytes (besides the part that involves the file system format). Did the
> change the way things work in Vista? The format seems to go too fast to be
> overwriting everything. I'm using WinHex by the way to verify.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
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