Roger, Dodger
The /u switch for unconditional format was added with MS-DOS 5.0
Regards
Glenn
On Monday 09 July 2001 09:48 pm, you wrote:
FYI. DOS 6.22 (and 5.0?) also got un-conditional format
if I remember corretly.
I think /u was added after DOS 4 when unformat become available.
On Monday 09 July 2001 12:05, Bill Day wrote:
They are ext2... but windows refuses to format them... actually, during
initilizing, then when it moves to format it completely locks
windows(imagine that) on at least 3 different windows systems
Yep, it can't get at the first sector of the
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 00:49, Glenn Williams wrote:
Note that there needs to be a space between the 'unconditional' switch
(u) and the format command, thus:
format /u a:
Nope, Dos parses differently to (ba)sh, no whitespace is acceptable.
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From: Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: General question regarding formatting floppies...
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 00:49, Glenn Williams wrote:
Note that there needs to be a space between
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 04:30, Glenn Williams wrote:
I just finished successfully formatting a floppy disk using this
command:
format a: /u
The command:
format/u
produces the following: Required parameter missing.
and this variation:
format\u
produces: Bad
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 05:11, Glenn Williams wrote:
Please forgive any errors in the above quotation. I quoted from
memory. Furthermore, I apologize to the list for the wasted bandwidth.
I don't agree. All info is good info, many people would have picked up useful
tidbits out of this.
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Thanks getns that did it
I couldnt recallt he switch tried about every letter except u ...
Anyway thanks again
On Monday 09 July 2001 08:58, you wrote:
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 00:49, Glenn Williams wrote:
Note that there needs to be a space between the 'unconditional' switch
(u)
FYI. DOS 6.22 (and 5.0?) also got un-conditional format
if I remember corretly.
I think /u was added after DOS 4 when unformat become available.
Furthermore, I mistakenly stated that DOS 7.0 will not accept
format a:/u whereas I just proved to myself that it will. However,
DOS 6.22 will
On Sunday 08 July 2001 09:16 pm, you wrote:
On Sun, 08 Jul 2001, Bill Day dropped these nuggets of information:
I took what few remaining floppies I had and formatted them with
linux via kde/kde2/condole jsut to get a basic feel... however, I
attempted to use (each one no less) in a
Rick, next time type with your fingers, and not your nose, ok? ;)
--- Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Winsoze only ubderstands three file formats do - fat, fat32 ntfs.
But is
depends on what system you are using. 9x only understands fat/fat32,
WinNt 4
fat/ntfs, Win 2k knows all
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