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From: peter@aucs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: How to make an unitialized disk
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 10:35:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 10:35:31 1987
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Reply-To: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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Here's a simple question: I teach an Intro to Mac course, and one
thing that I demonstrate is how to format a new disk. After the class
I end up with 15 formatted disks that I want to use again for the same
purpose the next time I teach the class. So, I have to "uninitialize"
them. The only way I've found to do this quickly is by starting to
reformat them and then boot the machine while the formatting is going
on. Pretty crude, and in particular slow, but it does the trick--I end
up with a disk that the Mac want to initialize when I insert it in a
drive. Does anyone know of a quick and dirty way to do this? I.e., does
anyone know of a way to "unformat" a disk quickly (or a portion of a disk).
Any ideas would be appreciated.


Peter Steele Acadia Univ. Wolfville NS Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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