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RE: disk format question
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:09:19 -0500
- Subject: RE: disk format question
- References: <50EC265F.2010507@mailme.ath.cx>
bartels sent the following at Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:00 AM
>I frequently need to destroy a file system on removable media. The
>windows format.com claims the fs is write protected, but I hope dd
>can help out.
In Windows Explorer, right clicking on the drive should give a format
command. Whether using it will tell you that the drive is write
protected works is another issue.
- Barry
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