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Hello Tom - 

TW>>> Well I suspect the Typical Computer would undeerstand
TW>>> that a little more then having it say FDISK. For
TW>>> "Prepair" most would think Why NOT? For
"FDISK" their
TW>>> reaction would be "WHAT"? 

CA>> If I programmed that message into the install it would be
CA>> more like: "I'm not seeing _anything_ on this hard drive
CA>> which means I will now make changes to this hard drive
CA>> that will completely remove any files that _are_ there. If
CA>> I am wrong to do this next operation press CANCEL". 

TW> Of course. But rembember MicroSoft has never been straight
TW> forward with theri uustomers. Rembember way bac ki nthe
TW> early DOS years there was no warning when doing a format. I
TW> know some that accidently erases their Hard thinking they
TW> were going to format a Floppy becasue C: was the DEfault if
TW> you didn't specify a drive. And as I said there was no
TW> message of any kind and as soon as you hit the enter key
TW> after typing format it took off down the path of NO return. 

Which is why when I was a PC consultant I renamed "format" to
"ready" then wrote a batch file named "format.bat" that checked
for existing files, offered a warning, then did "format a:" to
prevent newbies formatting the C: drive. :-) 

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