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koala_man on Sept 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The last person standing in the floppy disk busine...

I think parent refers to the fact that if you insert a floppy disk and reformat it without running anything on it, it's safe.

This is not true for USB drives, as USB controllers can be programmed to re-insert a virus or fry the system at any time in the future.

wrycoder on Sept 13, 2022 [–]

Not true for floppies, either. To reformat the boot sector, include the /S switch.

FORMAT /S

outworlder on Sept 13, 2022 | [–]

Yeah, but they would not autorun anything. If you forgot them inserted and rebooted, however...

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