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Question on new floppy dive formatting

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From: David J Stucki
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1989 16:53
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Once a floppy disk has been initialized by one of the new superdrives
for 1.4M format is there any way to have it re-formatted for 800K
by the same drive?

When I tried to re-format it from the SPECIAL menu, the dialog box
gave no options for which format to use.

thanks,
Dave...

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Subject: Question on new floppy dive formatting
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Date: 10 Oct 89 16:53:48 GMT
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