Reformatting harddrive with an image

[Chief Suspect]

Does there exist any such thing as a DOS executable which will
REFORMAT any size hard drive (either FAT32 or NTFS)by replacing
an empty image file? Sooooo much faster than actually using
the format.exe command. I once made such an empty image file,
using GHOST and it worked fine. I just thought maybe by now
somebody had written a program to do this.

 

[Adam Piggott]

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Does there exist any such thing as a DOS executable which will
REFORMAT any size hard drive (either FAT32 or NTFS)by replacing
an empty image file? Sooooo much faster than actually using
the format.exe command. I once made such an empty image file,
using GHOST and it worked fine. I just thought maybe by now
somebody had written a program to do this.

You can use the /Q switch of format.exe to perform a quick format which
assumedly just re-writes the FAT/MFT. Last time I did this (NTFS) on a
~10GB disk it took under five minutes IIRC.
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