I have an older version of Partition Wizard to wipe my hard drive. I decided to wipe it using ones and zeros, instead of just using ones OR zeros, and its going to take over 3 hours. Could I just interrupt the wipe and just redo it using a quicker method?
I googled "interrupting a hard drive wipe" and it yielded some results from which I read different takes on this. I also thought it may be worth discussing here.
I know that if you interrupt a low level format you can cause damage (although I am not sure why)
So in my understanding Wiping is simply writing data to the sectors replacing old data, so if I just stop it, it will simply stop WRITING data so it shouldnt affect anything right?
What does a low level format do that makes it so dangerous to interrupt?
Low-level formatting creates the physical format that dictates where data is stored on the disk.
So what does it "format"? Is the term still "wipe"?
How does it format the stuff that dictates the format? Does it go underneath the sectors?
Thank you
I googled "interrupting a hard drive wipe" and it yielded some results from which I read different takes on this. I also thought it may be worth discussing here.
I know that if you interrupt a low level format you can cause damage (although I am not sure why)
So in my understanding Wiping is simply writing data to the sectors replacing old data, so if I just stop it, it will simply stop WRITING data so it shouldnt affect anything right?
What does a low level format do that makes it so dangerous to interrupt?
Low-level formatting creates the physical format that dictates where data is stored on the disk.
So what does it "format"? Is the term still "wipe"?
How does it format the stuff that dictates the format? Does it go underneath the sectors?
Thank you