November 26th 16, 01:47 PM
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Formatting a FAT32 disk
On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 21:11:23 -0000, Hot-Text wrote:
"Lee" wrote in message
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On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 11:09:40 PM UTC-6, Hot-Text wrote:
/u Is A Lie
Not quite accurate,
but neither is telling the user that it will show up with /
? switch applied to format command.
The truth is that /U is the new /C.
For whatever reason they decided /C was more better,
but at the same time left the /U switch working
for /C switch for those of us used to using /U.
Same, same is the result only now /U
is an undocumented switch.
Description of /C is lacking as well
but then so was /U description back when it
did show up in earlier versions of DOS.
Well I Nether Did Like IBM Too:
God Lee
That was News To Me /u
Made Me Look it Up to
Ok You Right We Round It Off
Just Like You Said And I Quote
You won't get any bad sector/cluster
report with format except on floppies.
Switch /U is not undocumented,
type format /?
and read about all the switches.
What /U does is ignore
the bad sector list
and attempt to format all sectors.
The reason it takes time is
because you have a bad drive.
Any other format simply adds
bad sectors found
at that time to
the existing (and growing)
bad sector list
without telling you about
any part of that.
2/10. It doesn't rhyme at all.
On Friday, November 24, 2016, Hot-Text Undeleted:
gargoyle60
You did a "format c: /S
That Is 100% Right
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