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Article #6296Re: Question on new floppy dive formatting
From: Dan Paight
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1989 14:24
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1989 14:24
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One sure-fire way to change the formatting on a disk is to first zap it with one of those bulk tape erasers. That will wipe the previous formatting clean. (Of course, I've never even SEEN a 'superdrive,' so I don't know what they can do. Maybe one of the local gurus here can offer a more elegant solution. dp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!network.ucsd.edu!HP-UX!dpaight From: dpaight@HP-UX.ucsd.edu (Dan Paight) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Question on new floppy dive formatting Message-ID: <2003@network.ucsd.edu> Date: 11 Oct 89 14:24:28 GMT References: <66043@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: nobody@network.ucsd.edu Reply-To: dpaight@weber.UUCP (Dan Paight) Organization: SSCF, UCSD Lines: 8