20 Aug
2007
20 Aug
'07
3:45 a.m.
Well, DOS 6.x had the /f switch on the FORMAT
command--which told DOS
to forget about trying to read the disk, just format it. I believe
that DOS 7.x ignores /f. And for DOS, there are always third-party
formatters.
Cheers,
Chuck
I think you meant the /u switch. The /f switch normally requires some other
parameters telling how to format the disk.
BTW, some interesting comments. I've always been curious why I could bulk erase
a disk and it would sometimes show up with a track 0 bad error (win98se.) Now
I'm going to have to try formatting on an earlier version of DOS.