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Typing "format" with no parameters in MS-DOS 3.2 or earlier would automatically, without prompting the user, format the current drive; however in MS-DOS 3.3 and later it would simply produce the error: "required parameter missing".
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Another option (/Q) allows for what Microsoft calls "Quick Format". With this option the command will not perform steps 2 and 3 above.
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in 1998. It is licensed under the GPL. It was adapted to ReactOS by Emanuele Aliberti in 1999 and supports
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must have its medium structured to be useful. This process is referred to as "creating a filesystem" in
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MSKB255867: How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk
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Running MS-DOS Version 6.22 (20th Anniversary Edition), 6th Revised edition
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version was developed by Brian E. Reifsnyder and is licensed under the
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to see if it is good or bad and marking it as good or bad in the FAT
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Microsoft Windows XP Professional Product Documentation: "format"
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https://www.pagetable.com/docs/amigados_tripos/tripos_manuals.pdf
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Open source FORMAT implementation that comes with MS-DOS v2.0
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does not alter data previously written to the media.
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to the first sector, with or without the /S option.
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Index

FORMAT

MS-DOS
MS-DOS
x86 assembly language
FreeDOS
C
Operating system
RT-11
86-DOS
MS-DOS
PC DOS
OS/2
eComStation
ArcaOS
ISIS-II
iRMX 86
TRIPOS
AmigaDOS
Z80-RIO
OS-9
MSX-DOS
FlexOS
PC-MOS
SpartaDOS X
DR DOS
ROM-DOS
4690 OS
FreeDOS
PTS-DOS

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