Originally Posted by zz9:
“And as I said but you ignore, if you do what they did, a factory reset/wipe, on a Windows tablet it will wipe the SD card as it treats it just like any other drive. So he could forget about the card but it would still have been wiped. His complaint was that Android factory reset wiped the phone but not the SD card, hence leaving personal data in the device. They did wipe the phone. On a Windows device that would wipe the SD card, hence not a security issue.”
“And as I said but you ignore, if you do what they did, a factory reset/wipe, on a Windows tablet it will wipe the SD card as it treats it just like any other drive. So he could forget about the card but it would still have been wiped. His complaint was that Android factory reset wiped the phone but not the SD card, hence leaving personal data in the device. They did wipe the phone. On a Windows device that would wipe the SD card, hence not a security issue.”
I doubt a factory reset on a Windows tablet would wipe an SD card actually, it normally just wipes the boot partition containing the Windows installation.



