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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Accidental formatting of hard disk
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Date: 9 Nov 89 07:06:04 GMT
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tcm@srhqla.SR.COM (Tim Meighan) writes:

>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.

Sorry, but that only happens when you format a floppy disk, or if you
have one of 2 or 3 very obscure releases of DOS.

A DOS FORMAT of a hard disk will just create an empty directory and FAT
and record bad sectors.
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