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What happened to any data stored on a floppy disk if you reformat it?
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∙ 11y ago
Reformatting a disk means recreating the header information on the disk. This causes all references to files on the disk to be lost. This does NOT mean that the information is gone, only that it is more difficult to access. If you want to remove data from a disk permanently, there are any number of free erase utilities that will do a far better job than simply reformatting.
If you use the "quick format" procedure, the data itself is still physically on the disk - only the File Table is reset to show the disk to be newly formatted and empty. Even a full format will not necessarily destroy the data, as some file recovery utilities can detect magnetic patterns on the media from weakly deleted files. The only method to securely eradicate the data is to use a utility that redundantly overwrites the data with other data (usually overwrites every byte with a zero value byte). A good such utility will allow you to select the number of times the data is overwritten, and the method used to do so.
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As little as possible. Floppy disks are prone to corruption and should be accessed as little as possible. It would be generally advised that no data should be stored on a floppy disk, and that any data you have on floppy disk should be removed and backed up on a more reliable format such as flash memory.
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