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- From: kskapin@csws8.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski)
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- Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.170613.6697@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 17:06:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.201259.7773@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> kls@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Kenneth L Shellberg) writes:
- >Very recently, there was a posting which recommended a DOS
- >floppy formatter called fdformat, which will format a 1.2M
- >5.25 floppy to 1.44M. Can anyone tell me where to find this
- >program? It sounds like it would be very useful to me.
- >
- >Thanks in advance.
- >
- >Ken
- >
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- The file the previous post was referring to is FDFORMAT18 available from
- GARBO.UWASA.FI (/pub/pc/diskutils). I downloaded it but it did not work
- for me. It kept saying error on track 0 head 0 after formatting. There
- is another file called 800II... in the same place. This one worked for me
- but it allows 1.2 to go to 1.4 not 1.44. Good enough for an OS/2 boot disk.
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- If the original poster is reading this, any ideas why fdformat didn't work
- for me. I loaded the INT13X, then used FMT.
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