Re: WANTED: Low-level disk formatter

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From: Peter Lew
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 16:47

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In article <1992Sep8.131752.27381@bcrka451.bnr.ca>, norm@bnr.ca (Norm MacNeil) writes:
|> 
|> My brother's hard disk with stacker installed took a turn for the worst (FAT
|> destroyed).  Anyway, I want to do a low-level format since the 100MB disk has
|> two partitions on it and he wants to instead just have one big disk.  Apparently
|> the "FORMAT" command doesn't do this.  So the question is, where do I get a
|> low-level hard disk formatter?
|> 
|> Thanks,
|>   Norm.

On your DOS disk there is a command called FDISK which you can 
use to remove partitions and format the hard drive.

Ciao

Peter Lew

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