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From: roth@pdntg1.paradyne.com (Mike Rothman)
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Subject: Re: Low level formats of dynamically configured drives
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Date: 5 Apr 91 18:08:41 GMT
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When you low level format a hard-drive, you are wiping out what DEFINES
what the drive may be split up into.

In other words, if your first PHYSICAL drive has Drive C: and Drive E: on it
(NOTE:  If you have a second PHYSICAL drive, its primary partition becomes D:)
That means you used FDISK or somesuch program to partition it into two pieces.
That being the case, a low level format will go below that and wipe that
partition out as well as the rest of the physical disk.

AKA no formatting of a single logical drive on a physical drive.