Can you still recover files after formatting?
August 7th, 2016
Windows supports zero write formats since Vista, but I’m not sure if it’ll do it by default.
The safest way to ensure it’s done is the following command in command prompt
format e: /fs:NTFS /p:2
MAKE SURE YOU CHANGE E TO THE CORRECT LETTER FOR YOUR CARD
This will write 0 to every part of the drive twice, which will make it unrecoverable by just about everything (and the things that could possibly recover it, your friend won’t be able to get)
Windows supports zero write formats since Vista, but I'm not sure if it'll do it by default.
The safest way to ensure it's done is the following command in command prompt
format e: /fs:NTFS /p:2
MAKE SURE YOU CHANGE E TO THE CORRECT LETTER FOR YOUR CARD
This will write 0 to every part of the drive twice, which will make it unrecoverable by just about everything (and the things that could possibly recover it, your friend won't be able to get)
Yes, I also think the same way. But I was not able to perform the command ‘format e: /fs:NTFS /p:2’
But i read that using minitool format will delete the file images permanently. Also the windows can do it on w8 (btw im using windows 8). That’s why I did the two method. Which is the quick format and unchecking the quick format.
It’ll only work if it writes zeroes over all the data. It used to be that the none quick format would only repair bad sectors, not write zeroes. Windows is now able to write zeroes, but I’m not 100% sure it’ll do it unless you specify (hence /p:2 in the command above).
What error do you receive when you try and run the format command? Did you check the card (when inserted in the machine) is drive letter e?
If you ran minitool to write zero or one, it should be unrecoverable. I’d run the zero and one (double pass) to be 100% save though.
It'll only work if it writes zeroes over all the data. It used to be that the none quick format would only repair bad sectors, not write zeroes. Windows is now able to write zeroes, but I'm not 100% sure it'll do it unless you specify (hence /p:2 in the command above).
What error do you receive when you try and run the format command? Did you check the card (when inserted in the machine) is drive letter e?
If you ran minitool to write zero or one, it should be unrecoverable. I'd run the zero and one (double pass) to be 100% save though.
No, I was not able to do that command. I already gave the card yesterday. But based on other websites, they say that unchecking the quick format will write 0’s on the drive. I hope that is true.