From: Chris Robinson 

But if you ran it from a DOS boot disk (not made in 2k/ XP) then wouldn't
it work, as you wouldn't be using Win2k's format - you'd be using DOS's
(I'm guessing this might not apply on NTFS drives?).

Chris.

Tony Ingenoso wrote:

> On a real later version DOS, it would hit'em all.  I've noticed the W2K/NT
FORMAT's don't always work the way real DOS did though
> (ex. not supporting the undocumented, but incredibly handy, /AUTOTEST switch)
>
> "Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:3e9b64b1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > You know, I'm not dead sure the /U switch reliably formats the whole of
each
> > sector any more, even for FAT.  On a floppy, certainly.  It certainly meant
> > something on FAT-16 in the DOS 3.3 era.  Even then,, there were Compaq
DOSes
> > through 5.0 that did headers only, even with /U.  On NTFS, I have no idea
of
> > what /U would even mean.  Has anyone ever done a forensic trace through a
> > formatted MFT, etc.?  A formidable task, no?  Tony?
> >
> > I'd reach for a wipefile utility if it mattered.
> >
> >

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