Formatting a drive writes 0 bytes

In Vista, formatting a harddisk, CompactFlash card, USB memory stick or

anything erases the whole partition by writing 0-bytes - unless you

selected "Quick format". Older Windows, like 2000, read from the media

(sent a verify command to driver) so you could still abort the operation

as long as it was "checking" only. Same behavior for Explorer and

"format" cmd.

Did anybody notice this change?

I found it after Vista zeroed not only the partition content but the

whole CompactFlash card (that means Master Boot Record, too). But this

total kill was not reproducable.

Best Regards, Ralf

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