Boot Disk Needed

From: Marvin Johnston <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Tue Oct 2 14:02:54 2001

No real times, just subjective. Also, I do not use the /q switch and the
times I referred to were a comparison between "format a: /s" vs "format
a: /s /u".

"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Tue Oct 02 2001 - 14:02:54 BST