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From: laba-5ac@web7f.berkeley.edu (Erik Talvola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Format Recovery (How?)
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Date: 25 Apr 88 19:31:38 GMT
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In article <861@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
>In article <5442@sigi.Colorado.EDU> murillo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo) writes:
><A friend has done the unthinkable... she formatted her entire hard disk.
>
>To avoid this in the future, I suggest renaming FORMAT and creating a
>FORMT.BAT file that calls it. Then you just check the parameters and
>give an error message if they try to format the wrong drive! This works
>well in our company...

If anyone is interested, I have a public domain DOS format program called
C-Format which will ONLY format drives A and B, will let you format disks
in both drives at the same time (i.e. - it formats the disk in A and then
goes right on to B), and also lets you format without verify, which takes
half the time.  It runs under PC-DOS 3.3 at least.  I only have the
executable, which lists the author's name and his BBS - no source.




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Erik Talvola          laba-5ac@widow.berkeley.edu

"...death is an acquired trait." -- Woody Allen
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