-=PCTechTalk=- Re: I Want To Try Something A Little Different!!
- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 20:56:24 -0400
Wow....it's amazing what I DON'T know LOL
But....I'm glad you cleared this up, cuz I wouldn't want a newbie
reading what you wrote and thinking "cool. I can format and I won't lose
anything"
That could be a bit of a problem, eh Viccy poo? ;-)
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Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 8:38 PM
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Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: I Want To Try Something A Little Different!!
No typo, linny poo.
Sure, formatting can be disasterous for most of us but it doesn't mean
the
data is wiped out. Formatting does not erase data. You just don't see
it.
A copy of the FAT tables are made when you do a regular format and with
the
right tools, the data can be recovered. Unformatting was common in Win
3.1
with Dos 6.22 which contained the unformat utility.
unformat c: /l
would do it and show you all the files and folders on your formatted
disk.
I remember a Windows problem I was having with video and even
formatting -reinstalling didn't fix it. Then it hit me that nothing was
really getting wiped out, so I did an unconditional format - format /u
-
which formats without making a copy of the FAT tables, and that fixed
the
problem.
vic
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