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JK0-802 · Question #301
A client has asked a technician about drive sanitation and wants to know what the difference is between overwriting a drive and formatting a drive. Which of the following would be the BEST response…
The correct answer is A. "Overwriting writes 1s and 0s to a hard drive replacing the data, while formatting only clears the. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
A client has asked a technician about drive sanitation and wants to know what the difference is between overwriting a drive and formatting a drive. Which of the following would be the BEST response from the technician?
Options
- A"Overwriting writes 1s and 0s to a hard drive replacing the data, while formatting only clears the
- B"Nothing is different. They both destroy the data so no one can recover it."
- C"Overwriting writes 1s and 0s to the drive replacing only the user's data but not the OS data, while
- D"Overwriting replaces all the data with a single file that fills the hard drive destroying the data, while
How the community answered
(17 responses)- A71% (12)
- B18% (3)
- C6% (1)
- D6% (1)
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