Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Hidden Format Switches

There are a couple of undocument Format switches that have been around for several years: They will work with at least DOS 6.2 and above.
  • FORMAT /AUTOTEST - Formats without any prompting and exits the program when finished
  • FORMAT /BACKUP - Like /AUTOTEST but you will be prompted for a volume label

These can be useful if your are formatting drives from a batch file or shortcut and don't want to be prompted for input.

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