As subject:

what are the differences between HDD Wipe and HDD Low Level Format?

HDD Wipe Tool:


HDD Low Level Format Tool:


The descriptions are very very similar ...

Thank you i.a.

aNt1X

a WIPE is only a Zero Fill

a so-called "LLF" is a Zero Fill, plus a scan for bad sector, bad sectors then are mapped out and simply disappear. They won't appear from a chkdsk command, you can only guess bad sectors have been found if the disk size has been reduced from before the Reinitialization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_formatting

Wiki advocate the term Reinitialization rather than LLF.

Important Note :

On the same disk, I have done a Reinitialization with
1) Seatools 1.09
2) MAXLLF 1.1

The Seatools was 10X fastest than the Maxllf, and it left errors on the disk (a Windows format hung à 63%).

The Maxllf took hours to complete, but really did the job.
The Windows format did go 100%.

No difference in my opinion .

As far as my thinking goes, After low level format is done data can be recovered using data recovery software.
But When the disk is wipe clean data recovery is not possible in that case.

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Data Recovery

u cannot recover data after low level format .