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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
So you are saying that Microsoft partition software doesn't format?
gpt
when you do a format, usually the data on the drive is simply marked as 'deleted' but the data is still technically on the drive and you could recover it from software as long as the data hasn't been overwritten. When you do a full format the data isn't just marked as deleted but every bit is overwritten (this is why full formats take so long).