DOS 6/Bridgeboard
13-Apr-93 00:15:40
Sb: #95280-DOS 6/Bridgeboard
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Dave Cinege 70322,447
Dave,
He formatted it under DOS 5 (according to your message)…I presume
that was after booting from a clean DOS 5 floppy? And that he used the /S
option to format to put DOS 5 on the disk?
I'm sure you're aware that FORMAT in and of itself does nothing but
check the sectors and 0 the FAT and root directory. It does not 0 the
sectors on the drive.
Use something like WIPEDISK to really 0 all the sectors, then FORMAT it
after booting with a DOS 5 floppy. There is nothing that I've seen in DOS
6 that will do ANY physical harm to a system.
Don