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Article #11572Re: 1.44MB Floppies won't format
From: Greg F Walz Chojnacki
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:31
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:31
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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 than 50 :) Greg
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!rpi!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gwc 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 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <1icgmeINNogd@uwm.edu> References: <1993Jan5.015838.2334@neocad.com> Reply-To: gwc@csd4.csd.uwm.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4 Originator: gwc@csd4.csd.uwm.edu