![]() ![]() ![]() This has lead to the myth that hard drives can never truly be erased, which leads to people destroying perfectly good hard drives because they think it's the only way to prevent someone from getting their personal information off them. Somewhere along the line, Microsoft decided that erasing the entire drive was too time consuming, so they neutered the Format command to only erase the directory and report the drive as empty. The reason that you can recover the contents of modern hard drives is that "formatting" them now only does a quick format and erases the directory. Anything that was on the disk before the format is gone. In the process the disk is completely erased (unless you use a "quick" format, which just erases the directory). ![]() It contained files made by me, so downloading copies from the Internet isn't an option.įor a computer to use a floppy disk it needs to have magnetic tracks and sectors recorded on it. So there is a good chance that the formatted floppy itself is still working. Lately I've been transferring my whole collection of C64 floppies (over 200) to PC, and found out that over 90% of the files transferred just fine. I still have that disk, and was wondering if there's any way to recover the files after a format, like with modern hard drives. I didn't even know what formatting meant so went along with it, thinking that might make it readable. It couldn't read the files, and said the disk needed to be formatted. Drevin wrote:When I was younger, I tried to use my PC's floppy drive to transfer files from a C64 disk to PC.
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