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Re: Format Help?

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From: Vilhelm Boggild
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 14:02
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In article <1992Apr14.130518.3823@gw.wmich.edu> 445mathers@gw.wmich.edu writes:
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>On occasion I have a problem with using disks formatted using a SE on
>a plus and vice-versa.  Is there any way of formatting a disk so that
>it will work for sure on both machines?
>
>All of the disks that are pre-bought or demo seem to work fine on both.
>Do I just need a copy of the system and finder to be equivalent?
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>Mark

Way back when, I owned a Commodore 64 and had a similar problem.  Disks that
seemed to work fine in my disk drive was unreadable on another.  When I finally
brought the drive into the shop, I was told that the drive was mis-aligned.  
Apparently, if the drive head becomes misaligned, it will still read disks 
created by that drive (since they were created by the mis-aligned drive).

I don't know if this is the same problem, (whether you've tried different
Plus's and SE's) but I hope this helps.

Erik
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