From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

Classic DOS's format does FAT12 and FAT16 period, nothing else.  A 9X DOS
can do FAT32 as well.

"Chris Robinson"  wrote in
message news:3E9BC1BE.C732AC7D{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> 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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