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From: mig@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
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Subject: Re: Disk space for FREE (was Re: super high density formatters)
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.184200.21028@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 90 18:42:00 GMT
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In article <17184@hydra.gatech.EDU> scott@kong.UUCP (Scott Coulter) writes:
>In article <4319@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> hrbaan@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Hayo Baan) writes:
>>There is a better way to gain
>>diskspace : use DD disks, punch a hole in it (just opposite the write-protect
>>tab), and format it to HD. This way you gain 100% disk space for FREE!!!
>>[...]
>>it is perfectly safe (I did this
>>to about 60 disks, and they did not give one format/read/write/... error at
>>all!. The only recomendation I have is that you should use GOOD disks (3M or
>
>I have no doubt that this worked fine on your machine, but have you used
>those disks extensively on a machine other than the one they were
>formatted on?  I find that this is where you usually run into trouble
>when formatting DD disks as HD.  Has anyone else experienced this?
>
>Scott D. Coulter
>scott@cc.gatech.edu
>Georgia Tech Software Engineering Research Center

I, too have tried this trick.
I have had one error to date and am no longer practicing the trick.
If your information is massive and not too vital, this is a useful trick.
But, don't come running to me when your .COM file crashes DOS!
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