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From: plim@hpsgpa.HP.COM (Peter Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Accidental formatting of hard disk
Message-ID: <340011@hpsgpa.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Nov 89 05:24:38 GMT
References: <2968@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr
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>>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.
>
I think you are referring to LOW LEVEL format instead of HIGH LEVEL.
As far as I can remember, DOS format (which is HIGH LEVEL) is non-
destructive on hard disk but destructive on floppy disk.


Regards,
Peter Lim.
HP Singapore IC Design Center.

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