'Never use quick format when formatting a NTFS Drive. Destructive low-level formatting is a thing of past technology such as FDDs and ST506 HDDs. Now fixed with cites (they were the hardest to find :-). Data is not lost - it's only unindexed if you're just formatting and no more. Try looking up EnCase to see how data is recovered. The facts need to be culled for this article, otherwise the article has no point. You can't have any 'might be true' in this document. Guy Harris ( talk) 23:13, (UTC) Reply It's still wrong. In any case, the 'Recovery of data from a formatted disk' section says 'As in file deletion by the operating system, data on a disk are not fully erased during every high-level format.' I've changed the second paragraph to say '.some of this data might be recoverable with special tools' (I wouldn't recommend reformatting a disk with an arbitrary file system type and expecting all your data to come back easily). contribs) 17:57, 15 September 2005‎ (UTC) Reply That might be true of what the page calls 'high-level formatting', but I doubt it's true of 'low-level formatting'.Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.51.19.86 ( talk For illustration purpose, we just give some examples on how to do this in Windows 98 or Windows 2000.It's relatively untrue that formatting will cause you to lose all your data, a simple /unformat will usually restore all of the files.

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