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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
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

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