Trying to find a blank floppy (a tale of KILLDISK and a computer)

[Wedge]

I saw a nice unlabeled green one. I thought it would probably work well enough for notes and stuff. I put it in my computer and:



It started automatically, and I didn't realize it was doing anything until I checked the log. So I was like, stuff, what got deleted. I checked my drive and found out all it did was write over the blank space on the drive with lots of 0s.

So it's not the end of the world, but it did scare me for a few minutes. Especially since it's only 7:30 in the morning and I'm still basically asleep.

Why anyone would leave killdisk lying around innocently is a mystery.

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[Space Guy]

It's designed to do that: it completely wipes all areas marked as "deleted" so the original data on it can't be recovered and used to look at your past files.

[Wedge]

Yeah, well, I figured that out, but I'm still basically asleep and I wasn't expecting it. And I've never actually cleared or formatted a drive, they usually don't last long enough for me to need to clean them. :(

I'm pretty sure no one would publish something that just ate your computer the moment you put it in the floppy drive.

[jordguitar]

Who the forget uses a floppy disk anymore?

[Rughugger]

It's designed to do that: it completely wipes all areas marked as "deleted" so the original data on it can't be recovered and used to look at your past files.

Technically the ONLY way to ever be sure your data is lost forever is destroying the drive. The FBI has ways of recovering things no matter what program is used to "erase" data on an Hard Drive. There's always something left behind.

[jordguitar]

Technically the ONLY way to ever be sure your data is lost forever is destroying the drive. The FBI has ways of recovering things no matter what program is used to "erase" data on an Hard Drive. There's always something left behind.

hammer then shredder then fier

[Loz]

Technically the ONLY way to ever be sure your data is lost forever is destroying the drive. The FBI has ways of recovering things no matter what program is used to "erase" data on an Hard Drive. There's always something left behind.

I'd say this is the next best thing for today.

[FlyGuy45]

Wrote 0's? Like a bunch of folders with 0's? I do not know how this works.

[jordguitar]

Wrote 0's? Like a bunch of folders with 0's? I do not know how this works.

makes alot of files that overwrite all the sectors. usually with the same pattern.