Odd formatting results

[irongeek at irongeek.com (Adrian Crenshaw)]

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,
> XP
> > format is faster and seems to leave the data in place so you can still
> data
> > carve it. Undocumented feature?
>
> Interesting find. Is this only on SSDs?
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