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Interesting SW question

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Hello,
upgraded my PC and during this process (when I was formatting one of my old hard-drives) crossed my mind one thing:

Everyone knows that you can't format a disk with a system (e.g. W10) via explorer when this system is running. But what about cmd.exe? If I run it with administrator privileges, type format c:, it normally goes to the question: "Formatting will delete all files of your drive. Are you sure to continue?" It's kinda strange. Normally I would except some error message BEFORE this question.

Does anybody know what appears when you answer Y?

And what about cleaning a disk with Diskpart? Is it the same situation, in the case of system drive?

I'm asking this question here (and not on some general PC forum) because I hope that you know me and you won't make fun of me (or at least only a little that I permit to you) or suspect me that I'm coming here with bad intentions to cause a damage on somebody's PC... :-)

TFYA,

Jez.
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