Growing up in the around computers, it was one of the most feared commands I could think of typing.
Armed with the benefit of a Windows XP Virtual PC image, I thought I'd actually confront my childhood fear:
What a let down! It won't even let you do it. I even tried a forced quick format.
Alas, another myth broken. I guess there's always "rm -rf /"
UPDATE: Check out Jonathan's post where he was much more persistent in his attempt.
3 comments:
But did you try it with Dos 6.22? I remember doing del *.* when I wanted to do del c:\temp\*.* when I was in the c:\ directory. Ouch!
A few years ago, I compared format c: to rm -Rf /.
I tried to take it to the farthest logical conclusion and had some fun results.
Jonathan: Awesome post!
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