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Article #4563Re: Unformatting disks?
From: Stefan Lindmark
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 21:59
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 21:59
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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? Try using a magnet, holding it very close to the magnetic surface after sliding the cover away. You may have trouble finding a magnet strong enough. If you want to do this often and quickly, use one of the powerful electro-magnet devices, normally used for de-magnetizing the heads of audio-tape decks. But beware: They tend to be *very* strong, ie everything in a radius of two meters may be destroyed. -- Stefan Lindmark Email: d88-sli@nada.kth.se Snail-mail: Don't even bother... If everybody helped one newuser today, the world would look a bit happier.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!sunic!kth!draken!d88-sli From: d88-sli@nada.kth.se (Stefan Lindmark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Unformatting disks? Message-ID: <1661@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 14 Sep 89 21:59:13 GMT References: <5261@merrimack.edu> <27121@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Reply-To: d88-sli@nada.kth.se (Stefan Lindmark) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 15