From: "Geo." 

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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