Re: Unformatting disks?

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From: Brian Kendig
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 17:27

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In article <5261@merrimack.edu> RAND@merrimack.edu (Rand P. Hall) writes:
>Other than degaussing, can anyone suggest a way to get previously
>initialized disks to appear uninitialized?

Format them in an IBM.  At last, Big Blue is good for something!

Or you could try to scramble them by holding magnets over them.

Or run over them with a very large truck.

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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Unformatting disks?
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Date: 14 Sep 89 17:27:01 GMT
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