I Installed Data Recovery On My PC And It Seems To Find Even Those Old Forgotten Files, It Even Recovers Files After A Complete Format. So Where Do Your Files Hide When You Thought You Got Rid Of Them For Good?
In a sense, formatting, particularly a quick format, doesn't erase the data, so much as ignores the data on the partition table(s). More advanced forms of wiping the drive include writing zeroes to the drive, sometimes multiple times. If you're really concerned about your data, do what the government does: write zeroes to it, then disassemble the drive and break the platters.
