From: gwc@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Greg F Walz Chojnacki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 1.44MB Floppies won't format
Date: 5 Jan 1993 17:31:58 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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From article <1993Jan5.015838.2334@neocad.com>, by bt@neocad.com (Bruce Talley):
>
> I had a system where its floppy drive was badly misaligned. It has been
> replaced with one that works just fine.
>
> My problem is that all the floppy's I had used in the bad drive had their
> track-0 wiped out. So now when I go "format a:" it returns with the error
I'm not saying this is the problem, but it reminds me of the time I tried to format double density floopies as High density floppies. Maybe you could get some
life out of these disks as double density (0.8 Meg) floppies. I don't recall
the switch for that. If it works, it'll be like throwing away 35 disks, rather
