Christopher Baker

Brilliant! Just tried it out, and yup 'Zero Tool' under Utilities. How did I not see that? I probably mistakenly got it into my head that it was some kind of pre-OS-installation partition clearing tool... Shows that even with OS's & SSD's TRIM function and firmwares, abandoned data still lives on these drives like the rotating spindle drives do. Ah, at least our posts might inform some googlers out there to the use & benefits of the menu option? Thanks Mike!

I recently imaged an 128GB NVMe drive. It was a project where I did a number of partition deletes & installs of windows versions (Embedded 7 through 8.1) along with copying a 10gb game to it, over and over. Doing an raw-mode whole-drive image was resulting in a compressed image over 50GB, even though the 119GB NTFS partition contained only 26GB uncompressed data, via ntfsbackup. Finding that a silly wasteful size, I thought about it for a while, and surmised that the raw read was preserving all the...

I recently imaged an 128GB NVMe drive. It was a project where I did a number of partition deletes & installs of windows versions (Embedded 7 through 8.1) along with copying a 10gb game to it, over and over. Doing an raw-mode whole-drive image was resulting in an image over 50GB, even though the 119GB NTFS partition contained only 26GB uncompressed data, via ntfsbackup. Finding that a silly wasteful size, I thought about it for a while, and surmised that the raw read was preserving all the bits of...