From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

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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