Re: Using HD disks as DD disks

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From: Ted Crum
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:34

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Could the original poster be running afoul of one of the unformattable
format programs? I find these odious. To get the convenience of a dos 5.0
format without unformat files being written, I use Norton 4.51 safe format
using the "dos format" option. It readily formats hd 3-1/2's to ld. So will
dos 3.3 if you remember the options to use. I bet 5.0 works if you can
defeat the unformat provision.

-Ted Crum

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From: tedcrum@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ted Crum)
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Subject: Re: Using HD disks as DD disks
Date: 24 Dec 1992 20:34:19 GMT
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