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Originally Posted by Stuart W
That would be to do with just how you wipe it.
If you mean running FDISK and Format then you may be surprised to hear that if you give me your drive just after you have formated it, I can not only get back all the data you had before the format, but also a whole load of data that was deleted before the format as well.
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That's true, but there are also tools I've seen advertised, or even given away on cover disks, which will over-write the deleted data repeatedly. Yes, it may still be possible even then to recover some or all of the information, but AIUI it's an expensive process and it wouldn't be financially viable to do it "on the off-chance".