WD My Passport Ultra recovery & deep format
Accidentally I formatted my WD hard disc before saving all the necessary files that I need. Now I am trying to recover them using Recuva (by CCleaner developers).
It will take day or two but when I get what I need I would like to do a deep format. How can I do that so nothing can be recovered after that?
Found something on WD website but is this the best way or maybe there is a better way? How to low level format or write zeros (Erase) to a WD hard drive or SSHD
This is how I formatted my WD in the first place: How to Partition and Format a WD Drive on Windows and macOS
hard-drive external-hard-drive data-recovery
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Accidentally I formatted my WD hard disc before saving all the necessary files that I need. Now I am trying to recover them using Recuva (by CCleaner developers).
It will take day or two but when I get what I need I would like to do a deep format. How can I do that so nothing can be recovered after that?
Found something on WD website but is this the best way or maybe there is a better way? How to low level format or write zeros (Erase) to a WD hard drive or SSHD
This is how I formatted my WD in the first place: How to Partition and Format a WD Drive on Windows and macOS
hard-drive external-hard-drive data-recovery
edited Feb 12 at 7:11
fixer1234
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asked Feb 11 at 13:53
TWDbagTWDbag
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Low-level formatting formats your hard drive past the point of no return because it wipes all existing sectors on the physical surface of your drive rather than just on the filesystem. Source.
– CodeIt
Feb 12 at 9:01
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Accidentally I formatted my WD hard disc before saving all the necessary files that I need. Now I am trying to recover them using Recuva (by CCleaner developers).
It will take day or two but when I get what I need I would like to do a deep format. How can I do that so nothing can be recovered after that?
Found something on WD website but is this the best way or maybe there is a better way? How to low level format or write zeros (Erase) to a WD hard drive or SSHD
This is how I formatted my WD in the first place: How to Partition and Format a WD Drive on Windows and macOS
hard-drive external-hard-drive data-recovery
edited Feb 12 at 7:11
fixer1234
18.9k144982
asked Feb 11 at 13:53
TWDbagTWDbag
11
Accidentally I formatted my WD hard disc before saving all the necessary files that I need. Now I am trying to recover them using Recuva (by CCleaner developers).
It will take day or two but when I get what I need I would like to do a deep format. How can I do that so nothing can be recovered after that?
Found something on WD website but is this the best way or maybe there is a better way? How to low level format or write zeros (Erase) to a WD hard drive or SSHD
This is how I formatted my WD in the first place: How to Partition and Format a WD Drive on Windows and macOS
hard-drive external-hard-drive data-recovery
hard-drive external-hard-drive data-recovery
edited Feb 12 at 7:11
fixer1234
18.9k144982
asked Feb 11 at 13:53
TWDbagTWDbag
11
edited Feb 12 at 7:11
fixer1234
18.9k144982
asked Feb 11 at 13:53
TWDbagTWDbag
11
edited Feb 12 at 7:11
fixer1234
18.9k144982
edited Feb 12 at 7:11
fixer1234
18.9k144982
edited Feb 12 at 7:11
fixer1234
18.9k144982
18.9k144982
asked Feb 11 at 13:53
TWDbagTWDbag
11
asked Feb 11 at 13:53
TWDbagTWDbag
11
asked Feb 11 at 13:53
TWDbagTWDbag
11
11
Low-level formatting formats your hard drive past the point of no return because it wipes all existing sectors on the physical surface of your drive rather than just on the filesystem. Source.
– CodeIt
Feb 12 at 9:01
add a comment |
Low-level formatting formats your hard drive past the point of no return because it wipes all existing sectors on the physical surface of your drive rather than just on the filesystem. Source.
– CodeIt
Feb 12 at 9:01
Low-level formatting formats your hard drive past the point of no return because it wipes all existing sectors on the physical surface of your drive rather than just on the filesystem. Source.
– CodeIt
Feb 12 at 9:01
Low-level formatting formats your hard drive past the point of no return because it wipes all existing sectors on the physical surface of your drive rather than just on the filesystem. Source.
– CodeIt
Feb 12 at 9:01
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Low-level formatting formats your hard drive past the point of no return because it wipes all existing sectors on the physical surface of your drive rather than just on the filesystem. Source.
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Feb 12 at 9:01