25 Aug
2003
25 Aug
'03
12:55 p.m.
At 07:18 AM 8/25/03 -0600, you 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.
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.
Joe