Re: Need disk error checker for Windows XP

"Ant" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> "D-W-S" wrote:
>
>> A real "format then create filesystem" cycle is achieved by using the
>> "/u" option to the format command line. This should detect badblocks.
>
> The "/u" (unconditional) option is no longer supported but is accepted
> for backward compatability. Its purpose was to override the automatic
> saving of the FAT so that accidentally formatted disks could be
> recovered with the "unformat" command. Using it would save time when
> formatting floppies. I'm not sure it was ever relevant for disks with
> NTFS.

And certainly not for modern disks which are LLFed in the factory and cannot 
be LLFed by the user - only partitioned and HLFed.