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  1. Feb 8th, 2000, 05:05 AM #1
    Jason B
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    hi.. Is there a way to automatically format a disk drive. I have used one method which brings up the format dialog box but does not automatically start formatting. I need to know this as i am writing a backup program which formats the destination drive before the backup program copies every file from C Drive to D Drive. Please help me with this problem
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  2. Feb 8th, 2000, 05:34 AM #2
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    Investigate the format.com file in windows\command. Might be a help file or something that will allow you to format. It is a dos prog...
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  3. Feb 8th, 2000, 05:43 AM #3
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    Try this code, one liner aswell

    Shell "rundll32 shell32,SHFormatDrive"

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