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From: fasciano@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Massimo Fasciano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Format floppy disks
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.183233.26087@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Date: 27 Aug 90 18:32:33 GMT
References: <1990Aug27.105958.2820@hellgate.utah.edu>
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In article <1990Aug27.105958.2820@hellgate.utah.edu> cyang%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Cheng Yang) writes:
>
>The floppy disks formatted by a Macintosh cannot be
>reformatted by an IBM PC.  And the floppy disks formatted
>by an IBM PC can't be reformatted by a Mac.  Does anyone
>here have any idea of solving this problem?
>
I've done this in both directions (Mac -> Pc and Pc -> Mac) many times
with 3.5" disks (720K on pc and 800K on MAC) and never had any problems...

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Massimo Fasciano (fasciano@iro.umontreal.ca)