25 Aug
2003
25 Aug
'03
8:53 a.m.
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Feldman, Robert wrote:
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.
/U was also the opposite of /F, I believe.
Peace... Sridhar