Editing Disk formatting (section)

== Notes ==
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<ref group="lower-alpha" name="NB_Magic_E5">The fact that 8-inch CP/M floppies came pre-formatted with a filler value of <code>0xE5</code> is the reason why the value of <code>0xE5</code> has a special meaning in directory entries in [[FAT12]], [[FAT16]] and [[FAT32]] file systems. This allowed [[86-DOS]] to use 8-inch floppies out of the box or with only the FAT initialized.<!-- <ref name="Schulman_1994_Undocumented-DOS"/> --></ref>
<ref group="lower-alpha" name="NB_Format_Wipe">One utility providing an option to specify the desired fill value for hard disks is DR-DOS' FDISK&nbsp;R2.31 with its optional wipe parameter <code>/W:246</code> (for a fill value of <code>0xF6</code>). In contrast to other [[FDISK]] utilities, DR-DOS FDISK is not only a partitioning tool, but can also format freshly created partitions as [[#FAT12|FAT12]], [[#FAT16|FAT16]] or [[#FAT32|FAT32]]. This reduces the risk of accidentally formatting the wrong volume.</ref>
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