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From: russ@hpldola.UUCP
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Subject: Re: a question about formatting floppies
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 17:19:39 EDT
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What is your default drive when you issue the format command?
On an IBM PC/XT with PC-DOS, I get the same message if the 
default drive is A:, but I do not get the message if the
default drive is C:.  DOS is looking for the two hidden/system
files on the default drive when you issue the format command.