Odd formatting results

[irongeek at irongeek.com (Adrian Crenshaw)]

The media is a 1gb SD card, I've tried different file formats on both XP and
Vista. XP seems to leave the data in all cases, Vista zeroes it in all
cases.

Adrian

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Joel Folkerts <joel.folkerts at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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