25 Aug
2003
25 Aug
'03
8:26 a.m.
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.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:16 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Low Level Format
<snip>
If /U is active, then it at least "VERIFIES" every cluster.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com