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Cipher vs Format on non-system disks
No question, just raising a subject to see whether I am right or wrong...
cipher /W:X
versus
format X: /fs:NTFS /p:2
cipher takes quite a long time, even for a small disk.
(as a test: cipher took about 40 minutes for a 5GB HDD-partition)
for non-system disks (like backups) :
temporarily copy all folders and files to another drive
run above Format-cmd (admin)
and restore the folders and files
will probably a much faster way.
drawback: one may not have sufficient free space to move/copy hundreds of GB (or even a few TBs)...