Whats the difference between quick format and basic format NTFS?

[mkx]

Always wondered.

[OG LennyT]

nothing you will notice

[Barefootsies]

nothing you will notice

True dat.

Although Win will tell you to do a the full because it's a more thourough format versus Quick. The premise is that Quick leaves remenants on HD and may not have a completely clean disk for install.

However neither's 100% so it's theory.

[CheeseFrog]

Quick format just lays down a fresh boot record, track 0 info, and whatever the NTFS version of the FAT is called. It doesn't do the whole sector by sector formatting that the other version does.

[mkx]

Good to know, I know that when you format, things can still be restored, just trying to get a fresh clean through

[Cyrano]

Good to know, I know that when you format, things can still be restored, just trying to get a fresh clean through

Low-level format.

[Screaming]

ive wondered that as well..

[CheeseFrog]

Good to know, I know that when you format, things can still be restored, just trying to get a fresh clean through

Even if you do a complete format, the data is still there. With a complete format the sectors are "refreshed" with new sector preamble and closing block, but the data portion is untouched, AFAIK in NTFS. You really want to use a disk "wipe" utility like Norton if you wanna flood unused space with white noise data.

[CheeseFrog]

Low-level format.

Yeah if you have time to kill. Disk wipe is a lot faster

[Choppa]

Quick format just lays down a fresh boot record, track 0 info, and whatever the NTFS version of the FAT is called. It doesn't do the whole sector by sector formatting that the other version does.

agreed