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From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MEI/Micro Center floppy disks
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Date: 1 Nov 90 20:05:14 GMT
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In article <1156@cameron.egr.duke.edu> js@dukee.egr.duke.edu (Jeffrey A. Shorey) writes:
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>  My experience with MEI disks is to use a low level format program like
>Norton Utilities WipeDisk on all disks first, then format them.  From around
>200 floppies I had a bad disk rate (ie a disk with any bad sectors at all) of
>around 5% or less.  They seem to have good longevity also, although I mainly
>used them for hard disk backups and used my other disks for important things.
>
>- Jeff Shorey

	Do you mean that Norton WipeDisk will work on an unformatted
disk? I thought it only would zero out all information written on
an already-formatted disk. So data in an erased file can not be retrieved
by Unerasing, for example.
	What does WipeDisk do to an UNFORMATTED disk?
	Thanks.


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