25 Aug
2003
25 Aug
'03
1:15 p.m.
Joe wrote:
At 07:18 AM 8/25/03 -0600, you wrote:
I don't know about the /Q option, but I'm sure the /U was valid for
fixed disks. I used it to avoid the "Can't save undelete information"
error.
Doc
I thought /U was "unconditional",
meaning that you cannot later reverse
the formatting and recover the previous data. Without /U, FORMAT would save
a hidden copy of the FAT (or something like that), IIRC, making it easier
to recover from the format. My MS-DOS 5.0 manual says that with the /U,
FORMAT "Destroys all existing data on a disk", whatever that means.
I think you are entirely correct. But AFIK the /U and /Q only apply to
formatting floppy disks. However I could be wrong about that.