On (21 Jun 97) Visa Harvey wrote to AARON JORDAN...
 VH> Hello AARON!
 VH> Thursday June 12 1997 16:40, AARON JORDAN wrote to RICK COLLINS:
 AJ>       Sorry dude, you lost me.
 AJ>         But when you format a disk you do lose all information on that
 AJ>  disk. It even tells you so.
 AJ>         And as to the reputation thing, I don't want to hurt anyone's
 AJ> feelings. I'm just interested and I like to state my point.
 AJ>        Feel free to correct if wrong! :)
 VH> All formatting a hard disk does is to wipe the root directory table
 VH> and mark the whole fat as reusable, it doesnt actually wipe the data,
 VH> which is why formatting is so quick on a HD, or at least thats if I
 VH> remember correctly, can't be bothered to look up...
That depends on the switches you use when you enter the format 
command.  Try format c: /u /autotest, now that will wipe the data 
from the hard or floppy being formated.
Gordon
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