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I've got some floppy disks that I want to format, erase everything off of them. But I don't want to go through and delete each one separately. Is there any way I can erase the whole disk at the same time?

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I would do a Quick format on each one - this will erase all the data, and format it fairly quickly.

How do you do a quick format?

 

Is it done in the c prompt? And if it is, what's the command for it?

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Hi,

 

It depends which operating system you are using.

 

In windows, generally, right click on the A: drive in File Manager (or my computer) and select format - at the bottom there should be a tick box for quick format.

 

From the c:> prompt then it would generally be "format a: /q"

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The topic above says "Format A Hard Disk?", yet the body of the note says "I've got some floppy disks that I want to format".

 

Which is it? :D

 

Assuming its a floppy and not the hard drive I would recommend you not use the quick format. Especially if these are old floppy disks.

 

A quick format will only clear out the FAT (file allocation table) and leave all the data intact. A full format will not only clear the FAT but it will rewrite all sectors and clusters and if it finds any errors will flag them as unusable.

 

It may take a little longer to format the disks but you will have a better chance of reading your data after its been written.

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