Quoting Jimbo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> A few years ago my wife caught a malicious virus that not only wiped out the hard 
> drive but also labeled it with a blinking smiley face.  I couldn't reformat it since 
> I couldn't duplicate the name of the hard drive. I find that this is an extended 
> ASCII character but unable to duplicate it via dos. 

If you use a Linux maintenance disk (floppy or CD), you won't have to.
One such is the Tom's Root/Boot floppy:  http://www.toms.net/rb/

-- 
Cheers,                           "This is Unix.  Stop acting so helpless."
Rick Moen                                               -- D.J. Bernstein
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