If I format a floppy, it wrote to the entire surface so data recovery is nearly impossible. A quick format of a HDD leaves almost all the data on the HDD for retrieval later.
And then you have folk new to PCs that call formatting a pc the process of installing the OS or factory recovery which is not formatting at all.
If you want o leak information, deleting the user's profile is the most leaky path.
At my work place we normally move assets around i.e. when a user leaves the organisation we give their pc or laptop to another user without deleting or formatting it. Now because of security reasons I would like to know which is best practise between deleting the previous user's profile and formatting the machine? Can someone give pros and cons of both?
Thank you very much

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