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In article: <829936245snx@holly.demon.co.uk>  Mark Rogers 
<mcr@holly.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> 
> I'm looking for a quick way of wiping a disk, in the way that "format 
> /q/u" does. That is - wipe the FAT and be done with it. No need to go 
> through the whole disk deleting files one at a time.
> 
> Why not use format /q/u, I hear you ask? Well, because it only works on 
> floppy disks. I can't use it to wipe, for example, a hard disk, a ZIP 
> disk, or a stacked (compressed) disk. Doing these things is, of-course, 
> dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, but I *do* know what I'm 
> doing and not being able to do it is frustrating!
> 
> ("Wipe" was probably a poor choice of wording. I'm not interested in the 
> security implications - I don't need the data to be removed from the disk 
> so thoroughly that the US government can't get it off. I just want the 
> disk to report "empty" and allow me to put new files on it.)

Format /q only works on a floppy, but format alone will work on a HD, and despite 
the size of the HD it is still pretty quick.

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