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Was this a low-level format?

ituserit, on Tuesday 8 April 2008 à 14:45:13
Hello,

I used GParted ( GNU Partition Editor ) to delete my windows partition and then I reinstalled vista. By deleting that partition, was that (in effect) a low-level firmat? In other words, would that have been effective in eliminating any malware that was on my harddrive?

I tried to use killdisk and darik's boot and muke, but for some reason I couidn't get the ISOs to burn on either (maybe my something is wrong with my burn-laser thing). So Ihad to use a copy of GParted that someone had givenme. I thought that maybe by deleting the partition, that would be a low-level format, or something similar. So did my deleting that partition with GParted,get rid of any malware that was on my harddrive ?

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the_craker, on Tuesday 8 April 2008 à 16:39:34
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Not necessarily so. Partition & low-level format are two different animals. Partitions are walls that you put up and take down from the HD. Format is like a buildozer that raze everything on the HDDs including partitions.
   
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pepsitrev, on Thursday 5 June 2008 à 16:49:51
if you formatt the whole hard disk that will erase everything including malware for sure. but back up any important files you want to save to a zip drive or burn them to a cd.cheers
   
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 wtf r u talking about, on Saturday 11 October 2008 à 03:02:18
negative, you must write to each sector and standard format won't do this. there are logical bad sector malware out there that will survive standard format. killdisk will do this, otherwise use spinrite to get all logical bad sectors fixed and then you use boot n nuke. quick searching on malware that survives standard formatting will confirm this.
   
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