DeMoN LaG wrote:

> You can technically format a drive to about 80% and then cancel it and 
> not have a problem, as the drive's FAT is not written until the end, at 
> which point data is unrecoverable.  

Data is not necessarily unrecoverable.
Firstly, only the FAT is overwritten, so the actual data is still on disk.
Secondly, there was an unformat command in MS-DOS. Unless you used 
"format /u", you could undo the formatting.

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