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[quote][i]Originally posted by Paul_J[/i] it'll clear it - but won't make stuff unfindable that was on there before. Basically the way the hard drive works is its comprised of loads of little sectors, when u write a file to the hard drive it fills these. When you delete a file, it doesn't actually remove the file thats on there - but sets it as 'writeable again' - i.e. you can re write onto it again. thus, if you format - you will be allowed to write on it all again, so in normal explorer mode you won't see any files. However if you have a file recovery program you can find all the old finds that are on there. Just saying this coz you said about files being traceable ... The only way to clear stuff completely is to write over everything with something else first. So format it - copy a huge file many times till the hard drive is full again then reformat. [/quote]
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