Boot Disk Needed

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Oct 2 12:04:59 2001

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Marvin Johnston wrote:
> > /u = Unconditional, it will do a real format, as opposed to quick format
> IIRC, /u = Unconditional is correct, but what it does is to not "save"
> the disk contents, i.e. unformat will recover the contents of a floppy
> that has been accidentally formatted unless the /u is used. I usually
> use the /u because it gets the job done faster.

/U (do a REAL format) is faster for you than
/Q (DON'T do a real format, just write an empty directory) ??

Would you care to post some measured times for how much faster it is?


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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Tue Oct 02 2001 - 12:04:59 BST

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