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madfats3 said:Is there any differance in the perfomance of the HD if you fdisk, or overwrite the drive in 0's?? Will fdisk make the drive perform better when you reformat or is there no differance?I kinda thought writes 0's might clutter the drives array in some way, but I am just totally guessing.
The purpose of fdisk is mainly with the partitions. You can delete the partition and then recreate it. You can also set up more than one partitions on one drive. I assume that when you delete the partition and recreat it, that the data is totaly gone. But I have never looked into it. One other reason to use fdisk and deleteing the partitions is to remove any bad sectors of the drive so they cant corrupt data. I have never heard of performace loss when using fdisk or zeroing a drive.