Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rusin From: rusin@mp.cs.niu.edu (David Rusin) Subject: Re: need directory pruner Message-ID: <1990Aug30.154645.277@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University References: <297@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 30 Aug 90 15:46:45 GMT Lines: 9 Do I understand you right - all you want to do is wipe out FAT tables and root directory entries but not format your hard disk? That's just what formatting DOES do on a fixed disk (Hence the un-formatting utilities such as Norton's) no .signature