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From: rich@mont.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Loe Level Floppy Formatting?
Keywords: Low Level
Message-ID: <rich.675641972@mont>
Date: 30 May 91 22:19:32 GMT
References: <1991May28.133503.323@gw.wmich.edu>
Organization: UMC Math Dept.
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In <1991May28.133503.323@gw.wmich.edu> 32lim@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>I was just wondering:
>	Is it possible to LOW LEVEL format a Floppy Disk?
>	I remember a program somewhere that cliamed to do it.
>	How does one TOTALLY blank (ie: unformat) a F.Disk?

DOS FORMAT does a low level format on floppy disks.  It does not 
format hard disks, it only verifies the sectors and constructs the      
directory and FAT.  The need to distinguish between a "format" and a 
"low level format" arises from the fact that the dos format command
is misnamed (at least for the hard disk case).

Rich