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- From: c.brennan@student.utas.edu.au (chris brennan)
- Subject: Re: Stand alone disk formater
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.172525.28276@newsroom.utas.edu.au>
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- Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia
- References: <1992Dec14.154043.21168@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:25:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.154043.21168@comp.lancs.ac.uk>, davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles) writes:
- >
- > Has anyone got any information / circuit diagrams on how to build a unit
- > to convert a spare 3.5" disk drive into a disk formatter / copier ?
- >
- > I find that a lot of the time my PC is sitting doing nothing apart from
- > formatting / copying disks.
- >
- > Davei
-
- Hi Davei,
-
- well there are software utilities to format disks as a background task,
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- but the easiest method is to use a batch file ie.
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- rem batch file to format disks, use control-c to exit.
- start:
- format d:
- echo ^G^Gplease replace disk in drive d:
- goto start
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- the computer will beep at you each time it finishes formatting.
-