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From: luis@grinch.UUCP (luis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Mace does **not** unformat floppy disks
Message-ID: <235@grinch.grinch.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 04:24:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: grinch.235
Posted: Tue May 26 04:24:20 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 28-May-87 02:04:46 EDT
References: <147@lcuxa.UUCP>
Reply-To: luis@grinch.UUCP (Luis Chanu)
Organization: Textural Software, San Jose, CA.
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In article <147@lcuxa.UUCP> mike2@lcuxa.UUCP writes:
>I have Version 4.0 of the Mace Utilities.  The documentation addresses
>only unformatting of hard disks, not floppies.  But, since it does not
>explicitly say that the floppies cannot be unformatted, I experimented
>with trying to do so.  Not surprisingly, the experiment failed (after
>a PC-DOS 3.1 format).  Furthermore, I then examined each sector of the
>reformatted disk, and found that the information was gone.
>
>Does this put the issue to rest?
>
>				Mike Slomin
>				!bellcore!lcuxa!mike2

Glad ya tried it out.. Sorry for any mis-information which I may have given
earlier on the net... 

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