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From: fswrr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (rector walter r)
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Subject: Re: Format floppy disks
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.083752.3725@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 90 08:37:52 GMT
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In article <1990Aug27.110119.2908@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?
> 

Get a big magnet and apply liberally tohe disk. This usually seems to work.
	-Reed