From: Chris Robinson 

Ah well, never mind.  Glad I posted that here - once again, a reliable base
of knowledge (call it a knowledge base if you will ;o)....

Chris.

"Geo." wrote:

> thanks, removed my note. Now that I think about it I do think it was to not
> save unformat information.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Rich"  wrote in message news:3e9b985c{at}w3.nls.net...
>    Don't bother.  /U is accepted and ignored.  It does nothing.
>
> Rich
>
>   "Geo."  wrote in message
news:3e9b38eb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>   cool, that is useful. I added a note on my website about that one so I
> don't
>   lose it.
>
>   Geo.
>
>   "Chris Robinson" 
wrote in message
>   news:3E9AA49B.78ED7B90{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
>   > I hadn't heard of this one before so I thought I'd share it with you.  A
>   > while back I was looking for DOS utilities that would completely wipe a
>   > hard drive.  I found some useful ones (usually from the manufactureres
>   > of the drive).  Today I found this tip in an issue of
"Computing":
>   >
>   >     Use the undocumented "U" switch when formatting a
drive.  It's a
>   > switch that tells Format to rewrite sectors irrespective of what's in
>   > them.  e.g. "FORMAT C: /U" will rewrite all the
sectors irrespective of
>   > what's in them.
>   >
>   > Pretty useful I thought, although it did remind me of the annoying
>   > amount of "undocumented" switches - why are they
undocumented?  "hey,
>   > our software can do this task but we're not going to tell you
about it"
>   >
>   > Chris.
>   >

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