Re: Clearing a disk quickly

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From: James Royce
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article <852700585wnr@naismith.demon.co.uk>, John Naismith
<John@naismith.demon.co.uk> writes

>Just a thought - on h/d's you could just run FDISK, delete the partition that 
>you want cleared, and then recreate the partition. This should work. Don't know 
>about zip disks as I've never used one.

Yes, but you've still got to format the new partition !


James.

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