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From: tcm@srhqla.SR.COM (Tim Meighan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Accidental formatting of hard disk
Message-ID: <1197@srhqla.SR.COM>
Date: 5 Nov 89 23:29:16 GMT
Reply-To: tcm@srhqla.SR.COM (Tim Meighan)
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Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
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In article <1532@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:

>command), you may be able to recover some of the data using a package
>like Norton Utilities. *Do not* put any files back on the disk ifkage

Not a chance.  A high level format writes $F6 into every byte of every
data sector on the disk.

Tim Meighan
Silent Radio

"Get me Premier Kisoff on the hot line!"