CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1102) — Question 256

A company is recycling old hard drives and wants to quickly reprovision the drives for reuse. Which of the following data destruction methods should the company use?

Answer options

• A. Degaussing
• B. Standard formatting
• C. Low-level wiping
• D. Deleting

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Standard formatting is the correct choice because it prepares the drive for reuse by removing the filesystem and making the data inaccessible without taking extensive time. Other methods like degaussing and low-level wiping can be more thorough but are not as quick, while simply deleting files does not ensure the data is unrecoverable.