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How To Sanitize A HD
How To Sanitize A HD
a hard drive(internal or external), flash drive, or floppy disk to a specified file system.
The format command is also a DOS command available in MS-DOS.
Note: You can also format drives without using a command. See How To Format a Hard Drive in
Windows for instructions.
Tip: You can output any results of the format command to a file using a redirection operator with
the command. See How To Redirect Command Output to a File for help or check out Command
Prompt Tricks for even more tips.