So I gave in and bought an SSD to upgrade my laptop. 240GB but in disk manager it comes up as 116GB. Strike one. Download some cloning software, clone my 232GB drive over (took 3 hours?), swap drives. won't boot. Strike two? Whatever. It's clearly not a 240GB drive, and I did not know that until I opened the package (it says on it that it is a 240GB drive), so, I figured it cost me nothing to go through the process of cloning and swapping before I return the drive.
Except... wiping the drive. Forgot that I do have some passwords on that computer (in the browsers). Would hate for anyone to hack their way into my BITOG account...
I found a link that said "quick" format just wipes the (file listing? index listing? whatever sector holds the listing of what is on the drive) of the disk without actually deleting the bulk of the drive. But if I turn off quick format it does a "write zero" to the drive? So I'm doing that, and it looks like it will take a few hours to format.
My question is, is that pretty well good and done? There's nothing on there that I'm worried about, only passwords, and those should be easy enough to just reset the critical ones.
Except... wiping the drive. Forgot that I do have some passwords on that computer (in the browsers). Would hate for anyone to hack their way into my BITOG account...
I found a link that said "quick" format just wipes the (file listing? index listing? whatever sector holds the listing of what is on the drive) of the disk without actually deleting the bulk of the drive. But if I turn off quick format it does a "write zero" to the drive? So I'm doing that, and it looks like it will take a few hours to format.
My question is, is that pretty well good and done? There's nothing on there that I'm worried about, only passwords, and those should be easy enough to just reset the critical ones.