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> If using Win10 or 11, you may find that even with a zeroed floppy or HDD partition when you power off, the partition will be silently formatted just as Window
by jhoechtl 2y ago
> If using Win10 or 11, you may find that even with a zeroed floppy or HDD partition when you power off, the partition will be silently formatted just as Windows last remembers it when you reboot, transparently without notice.
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- accrual 2y agoI have a USB floppy drive with a known good disk in it. Not sure if a regular 34-pin floppy would be any different. But blanked it, connected to Win 11, and rebooted. The drive seeked on startup, but otherwise it's still blank: dd if=/dev/rsd1c | hexdump -C 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 2880+0 records in 2880+0 records out