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- From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <JNeedleman@MCIMail.com>
- Subject: Re: formatting mac floppies on an ibm - HELP!
- Message-ID: <jmT-44@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 08:15:16 EDT
- Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- References: <Bryx9I.78D@cs.dal.ca>
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- In article <Bryx9I.78D@cs.dal.ca> Michael Graham, graham@ug.cs.dal.ca
- writes:
- >here's what I want to do:
- >
- >take a disk formatted for the mac and stick it in an ibm. Then reformat
- >it for the ibm at 720k. How do I do this??
- >
- >I tried everything on my 486: format b: /u /f:720 (nice syntax huh?)
- >I tried just about every format switch and nothing would work because
- there
- >was some error on track 0.
- >
- >HELP
- >mike
-
- Try formatting a brand new disk on your IBM. Then made a copy of it using
- Apple Disk Copy 4.2 onto your Mac hard drive.
-
- When you want to use an old Mac disk in your IBM, simply make a copy of
- that stored IBM disk onto the Mac disk using Apple Disk Copy 4.2.
-
- Jeff
-