I bought a usb drive recently, but am going to return it because it is
too slow. I did copy some files containing personal info onto the
drive though, so I want to make sure I wipe it off. Is it enough to
format the drive? Or should I fill up the drive with non-personal
data to make sure that my personal data got overwritten?

void.no.spam.com@gmail.com wrote:

No, there are plenty of utes that can unformat it.

Its better to do a security wipe.
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm

Search Google for a "Shredder" program (free) that will overwrite the entire
disk several times with 1's and 0's. It' the only safe way to protect your
former data.

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