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Old 07-12-2024, 06:43 AM
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Formatting the drive or erasing the drive normally doesn’t stop the next guy to use a rescue app to grab data off the drive. Unless your formatting software will format/erase your drive 7 times the data can be recovered. Especially from a windows pc.
If it’s a windows pc, I’d even toss a working 1 pc and get an apple or linux pc.