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FOLKS, is there a cool and trendy way to format in DOS w/o waiting to say "y" when it confirms "warning: all data will be lost blah blah blah, proceed with format (y/n)?"
Such as format [drive]: /[yes i really want to]?
This could save me seconds a week, minutes a month! Go-Fight-Win!
Yes. format c: /autotest
Try <a href="http://www3.sympatico.ca/rhwatson/dos7/z-format.html" target="_blank"> here</a>
Are you really Stanley or just using his computer? -lol
Thank You Gentlemen. Yes it is me.
u meen like this post ,,, <a href="http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum3/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=17;t=008792" target="_blank">http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum3/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=17;t=008792</a>
are u shure u are stanley ?????
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Poseidon:
<strong>Try <a href="http://www3.sympatico.ca/rhwatson/dos7/z-format.html" target="_blank"> here</a>
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Errr here's a quote ...
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">/BACKUP Not sure what this does. Seems to be similar to /AUTOTEST except that it asks for a Volume label, and displays data on number of bytes available, etc. Haven't tried it with c: drive so don't know whether it warns before formatting a hard drive </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Mmmmm who writes this stuff <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> ...?
It's called a 'pipe'...like this:
Format C: | Y
Simple as that...bye!
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It's called a 'pipe'...like this:
Format C: | Y
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Except that water doesn't run uphill, so its more like:
echo Y|Format C:
and even this might work sometimes
Format C:<Y
where Y is a single letter named file containing only the text letter Y - most often it doesn't work worth a hoot but its worth a try.
Whoops!
Format C:(lesser than symbol)Y
where Y is a single letter named file containing only the text letter Y - most often it doesn't work worth a hoot but its worth a try.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by confus-ed:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Poseidon:
<strong>Try <a href="http://www3.sympatico.ca/rhwatson/dos7/z-format.html" target="_blank"> here</a>
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Errr here's a quote ...
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">/BACKUP Not sure what this does. Seems to be similar to /AUTOTEST except that it asks for a Volume label, and displays data on number of bytes available, etc. Haven't tried it with c: drive so don't know whether it warns before formatting a hard drive </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Mmmmm who writes this stuff <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> ...?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah that is pretty lame. Thanks for pointing it out. Didn't notice it when I first glanced at the page.
<a href="http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm" target="_blank">Here</a>'s a better site.
Very informative, Thanks TEAM!
Cool I never knew that information before. Thanks. :)