Quick question, does a 'quick format' suffice before recycling a harddrive?

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As title. I have a 2TB very old external drive that I had old documents and media backed up to. Lots of personal info like old CVs etc.

It's going in the electrical recycling, will a 'quick format' in Windows suffice or should I spend 2-3hrs doing a 'slow' format? (Which I understand writes zeroes to the drive).

Thanks!

 

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Thanks guys. Will bear it in mind for the next one. Afraid I didn’t use any of those methods this time around but the drive was mainly media and any docs from there, they would have been 10-15 years old anyway, so not current addresses etc. I don’t think back then I would have had anything “sensitive “ anyway. And chances of it falling into the wrong hands are pretty slim anyway I’d hope (hope is not a strategy!). It was quick formatted so as good as blank for your average scavenger.