Ok, a few years ago I tested out formatting an SD card from XP, and showed how you could file carve the data back off of it because it did not zero the bytes. http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/data-carving-with-photorec-to-retrieve-deleted-files-from-formatted-drives-for-forensics-and-disaster-recovery
I'm testing right now in Vista, and doing a normal format seems to zero out the bytes (besides the part that involves the file system format). Did the change the way things work in Vista? The format seems to go too fast to be overwriting everything. I'm using WinHex by the way to verify. Thanks, Adrian
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