On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
track 0. Why must it fail to format because track 0
is partially readable when I specifically asked it
to unconditionally format?
Because MICROS~1 is completely unclear on the concept of "unconditional".
In their more recent operating systems, they are also completely unclear
on the concept of "floppy boot". If one of the system files ON THE HARD
DISK is bad, it CAN NOT be booted. What else can I boot an NT machine
with that can read and write an NTFS partition?