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Article #7143Re: Formatting cheap 3-1/2" floppy
From: Scott Wilken
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 1991 17:45
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 1991 17:45
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In article <1005@ra.MsState.Edu> it1@ra.MsState.Edu (Tim Tsai) writes:
>In article <1991Jan26.015628.15182@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> daver@ECE.ORST.EDU (Dave Rabinowitz) writes:
>> Invalid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable
>> Format failure
>
> I usually just toss those disks. I haven't tried this but one of
>those magnetic media erasers from Radio Shack (essentially a very
No, this isnt your problem (at least from what I get out of context, I
didnt see the original message). That is the message you get when you
try to format a Double Density disk on a High density drive..
To format these disks correctly, using DOS 4.0 or higher, type
"format b:/f:720" (of course this assumes that you have your 3.5 drive in
b:. It is done differently with earlier versions of DOS, but offhand I
dont remember the command. Im sure someone on the net can tell us..
Scott
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