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Re: low level format
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raymond kornele <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 25 Sep 1999 14:59:28 PDT
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>From: Mark Rode <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] low level format
>Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 22:54:41 -0700
>
>FDISK will not remove corrupt partition tables or corrupt boot sectors
>which is why it is sometimes necessary to LLF.

===============
Fdisk -is- low level format. The high level format in DOS is called Format.

Fdisk -does- set the partitions -and- wipe all FAT and directory information
from the disk.

Also, you must specify partition information when doing Fdisk.

That according to the Microsoft DOS manual.
=====Korny=====

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