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- From: peterlew@bnr.ca (Peter Lew)
- Subject: Re: WANTED: Low-level disk formatter
- Message-ID: <1992Sep08.164729.10798@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Reply-To: peterlew@bnr.ca (Peter Lew)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- References: <1992Sep8.131752.27381@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
- Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 16:47:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.131752.27381@bcrka451.bnr.ca>, norm@bnr.ca (Norm MacNeil) writes:
- |>
- |> My brother's hard disk with stacker installed took a turn for the worst (FAT
- |> destroyed). Anyway, I want to do a low-level format since the 100MB disk has
- |> two partitions on it and he wants to instead just have one big disk. Apparently
- |> the "FORMAT" command doesn't do this. So the question is, where do I get a
- |> low-level hard disk formatter?
- |>
- |> Thanks,
- |> Norm.
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- On your DOS disk there is a command called FDISK which you can
- use to remove partitions and format the hard drive.
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- Ciao
-
- Peter Lew
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