darclew7 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 I had my flash drive [Fat32] put into a folder to be burned, NERO Burnlite 10 only read folders. I transferred all from that to a DVD+RW. Can I now erase the flashdrive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted November 10, 2010 Moderators Share Posted November 10, 2010 I don't see why not. Why don't you just try it? I believe that the Drive Wiper formats the drive then wipes the free space: I don't know whether it remembers the format type or just goes for NTFS. Let us know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 I've just used Drive Wiper on a USB Flash Drive formatted in FAT 32. The drive was first formatted and then wiped and the format type remained as FAT 32. None of the files that had been on the USB drive could be found using Recuva in either normal scan or deep scan so Drive Wiper certainly did its job. There were two large files created in the Drive Wiper process which Recuva listed but these were unrecoverable. The process appears to work by creating large files to overwrite the data on the drive. This is a 2GB USB drive and the two files created total up to about 2GB in size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted November 15, 2010 Moderators Share Posted November 15, 2010 That's good, and confirms what we thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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