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From: john@ecsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: micro.ibm,net.micro.pc
Subject: reformatting your pc/xt hard disk
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Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 10:33:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 18 10:33:10 1984
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In the info-ibmpc digest vol. 3 #74 Byron Han asked how to
recover a portion of his hard disk that he had dedicated to
the p-System.  He found out, as I did, that none of the standard DOS
utilities will touch non-DOS areas.  (I had set up a Venix partition
that I wanted remove for a while.)  The only way I know to reformat
a non-DOS area is to use the IBM Advanced Diagnostics, which includes
a hard disk format program.  This worked for Byron Han too, he told me.

 john hogan
 nc educational computing service
 rtp, nc 27709
  (919) 549 0671
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