>Is there a native foxpro function to accomplish this??

From Ed Rauh a few days ago:

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You can run the command line format command using VFP's RUN command, or using any of a number of API calls such as ShellExecute() or CreateProcess() - my API_APPRUN class uses the CreateProcess() API call.

The simple example, using VFP to format a disk in the A: drive:

RUN FORMAT A: /Q/U
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