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From: rodger@hpdml93.HP.COM (Rodger Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Formatting
Message-ID: <380010@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Dec 88 06:57:46 GMT
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Organization: HP Disk Memory Division - Boise, ID
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>/ hpdml93:comp.sys.amiga / panzer@mulberry.ucsb.edu (Panzer) /  6:36 pm  Dec 11, 1988 /
>Does anybody else have this problem?
Yes, I had this problem when trying to format my hard disk partitions.

>Often when I'm formatting new disks, the Format program will stop
>on the first track w/o explanation.  The disk it was formatting
>is then regarded as a "non-DOS" disk, and I can't do ANYTHING
>with it (including formatting).  This only seems to happen when I
>boot from my WB 1.2 or Aztec system disks.  If I erase the 
>messed-up disk, and then format it with the Format from Scribble!,
>it works fine.  What's the deal?  Some sort of virus?  (I have
>Vcheck, but maybe it's an obsolete version now...)

I would also like to know what causes format to tell "handler not found"
when its trying to format with the FastFileSystem.

Has anyone else seen either of these problems?
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Rodger Anderson (rodger@hpdml93)
              or(rodger%hpdml93@hplabs.hp.com)