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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Matthew Gillen wrote: > Mark J. Dulcey wrote: >> DOS is another story. FDISK clears at least the first sector of any >> partition it creates so that the partition will appear empty to the >> FORMAT program. I don't know whether that is also true of the partition >> tools in current versions of Windows. > > Wow. I'm flabbergasted. Who was the genius that thought that up? I know M$ > has done some idiotic things, but that's right up there with keeping the > hardware clock in local time instead of UTC. Let me guess: if the first > sector of the partition isn't zero-ed out, then FORMAT won't touch it, right? I'm guessing its to protect uknowledgeable people from each other. I could see someone "wiping" a dos machine by deleting the primary partition. You hand the machine to the next person, and the first thing they would try is to add a partition. This way they don't see the last person's data.
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