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    What are the chances of an attacker recovering my data on a “quick formatted” hard drive?

    Long story short, a while ago, I bought and returned a hard drive that still had sensitive information on it including social security number, passwords to online accounts, etc. At the time, I thought that I removed all the information on the hard drive because I quick formatted it a few times...
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    Windows 7 unable to format

    Hello I want to know how to format my C when I want to install Windows 7?When I format it normaly it formats, I think, very quick like on XP when you choose to format in NTFS quick way which I don't want so how to truly format my C partition?
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    Windows 7 difference between format,quick format and delete.

    plz any one provide the information about delete,format,quick format in technical terms.
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    Windows 7 Installation problems

    Hi There I had windows 7 when it was the beta just to see what its like. Now i have downloaded the new 64 bit version from MSDN. Upon installing i encountered several errors: First time it got almost all the way through then blue screened, then upon restart displays the message that the...
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    Windows 7 Quick format during install process

    Anyone else notice you have to go into Advanced Options to select a quick format of the C: drive before installing Windows 7? The first time I installed the RC version on my XP computer I had a artifacts left over from XP that caused problems. I was told by a friend to reinstall and go into...