Formatted Floppy or Deleted Files?

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cjaveni

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Topic starter 07/08/2007 12:23 am [#1771]

Thanks in advanced for your assistance with this. I was wondering how you can tell the difference between a floppy that was formatted and a floppy that just had all the files delete from it. Also, is there any way to determine the format date?

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MindSmith

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07/08/2007 4:02 pm

It may be possible to determine the date a disk was formatted based on the volume serial number - subject to OS version. The following paper by Craig Wilson (written in 2003), may be of interest.

http//www.digital-detective.co.uk/documents/Volume%20Serial%20Numbers.pdf

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roncufley

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03/09/2007 1:58 pm

The standard format for a floppy creates the boot record and empty root directory, zeroes the fats and overwrites the data area with F6s. The quick format does not overwrite the data area.

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