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 <dph...@trustedsignal.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Adrian Crenshaw<irong...@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? > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > Pauldotcom@mail.pauldotcom.com > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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