scott wrote:
> Oh, I thought that "format" really went over every byte of the partition 
> and wrote to it?  IIRC there is a "quick format" option, which I assumed 
> just did the headers and stuff to make it look like it was formatted.

Format *used* to write to the whole drive, way back in DOS 3/4 days or 
so. Now quick-format writes only the file system (first few tracks, 
basically) assuming all sectors are good, and non-quick format writes 
the first few tracks after *reading* all the sectors to make sure 
they're good.

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