UNFORMAT D: in DOS ???

Question

i know you can because i checked it somewere that if im using dos 6.22 i can enter UNFORMAT the folowing drive and it will unformat the formated drive ! is it true ? oh and does it mean if i accidentley formated my drive or its in RAW i can undo it ? manny tanx ! 10 points waiting !

if you dont believe me check here :

http://www.computerhope.com/unformat.htm

i had 10 gb on that drive and i lost it !

i checked and there is unformat in the disk 2 of dos !

i also founded this in many sites so i do believe the internet !

Answer 1

You can not UNFORMAT a drive in fat 32 or NTFS you can only recover the partition with recovery software for which you need another drive to recover to this is a very expensive way to recover the drive

Answer 2

I see no reason to unformat a drive. There's no use for it if you don't have a filesystem. Unformat doesn't sound like it would be the proper name for retrieving lost files from formatting, and anything lost wouldn't be that easy to retrieve unless you used a quick format instead of a full one.

Answer 3

While I dont believe everything I read on the internet it does kinda make sence that it existed at one time.. the FAT table use to keep an extra copy of itself.. I thought just for error recovery but I can see it being used to undo a format change IF the only thing changed was the Fat table. aka a quick format not a complete one. my DOS days are long long gone though and I could be smoking crack

Answer 4

I never heard of the UNFORMAT command and I have been around for a long time (in computer years) . I think what you are looking for is FDISK this will clear all partitions ( and information) on a hard drive.