Oh...LOL Guess I screwed up cuz I always use Partition Magic.....but I thought if you ran fdisk it would wipe the drive clean. No? Linda Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darryl Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 4:13 PM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: I Want To Try Something A Little Different!! FDISK is for creating partitions format c: /<insert switch> formats the drive, fdisk writes the parition table Darryl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 6:01 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: I Want To Try Something A Little Different!! > > Nope...you wouldn't want Fdisk in your scheduled tasks, unless you > wanted to regularly wipe everything off your computer LOL > > Fdisk is a DOS command you use when you want to delete EVERYTHING off a > drive and is only used for this purpose. > > Fdisk = format disk > To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/
