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From: rcw@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Robert White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MEI/Micro Center floppy disks
Message-ID: <7948@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 90 09:41:35 GMT
References: <8416@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1156@cameron.egr.duke.edu>
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In article <1156@cameron.egr.duke.edu> js@dukee.egr.duke.edu (Jeffrey A. Shorey) writes:
>  My experience with MEI disks is to use a low level format program like
>Norton Utilities WipeDisk on all disks first, then format them.  
>- Jeff Shorey

Another oddity.  If you try to format them first, and they fail to 
format correctly, and then you try to format them a second time, often
they will be ok.

Pretty wierd, huh?




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