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Article #7669Re: FORMATTING 720K DISKS TO 1.44 MEGS HELP NEEDED!!!
From: Wm E Davidsen Jr
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 22:35
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 22:35
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In article <1989Nov27.220237.20770@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (George Wang) writes: | However, I have not been able to format the disks at 1.44 megs.. | It keeps on giving me invalid media/bad track 0... The funny | thing is, is that I can use a legit 1.44 meg diskette, cover | the high density hole and format the it at 1.44 megs even | though technically the drive thinks it's a 720K disk... But | this is ONLY if I use a REAL high density disk and not a fake | 720K disk... Don't think there's any trick involved, sounds like the cheap 720k disks you have are just not good enough. I have seen this when people punch the 1.44 hole in 720k disks, too. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: FORMATTING 720K DISKS TO 1.44 MEGS HELP NEEDED!!! Keywords: 720K 3.5" FORMATTING Message-ID: <1792@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 27 Nov 89 22:35:21 GMT References: <539@cscnj.csc.COM> <1989Nov27.220237.20770@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 18 Reply-exos: @crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)