Windows XP/2000 - Compaq Armada 1750 Notebook crash. OS XP Home posted in the Operating Systems forums; I saw a reply posting the other day that refered to non-dos files that don't show when viewed with MS explorer. It made me ponder the idea that if you ...
I saw a reply posting the other day that refered to non-dos files that don't show when viewed with MS explorer. It made me ponder the idea that if you use Dos to formatt a HDD would it delete these files or not.
I don't know if this answers your question or not, but...when you format a hard drive, it wipes every bit of data off of it regardless of what you use to format it.
Hope that helps!
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