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From: ICFLR@ASUACAD.BITNET (Frank Reeves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Formatting cheap 3-1/2" floppy
Message-ID: <91028.124318ICFLR@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Date: 28 Jan 91 19:43:18 GMT
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Most likely you're using a high density drive to format a low density disk.
The thing to do is to format the disk specifically for 720k.  You can either
type PCFORMAT A: /F:720 or FORMAT A: /N:9 /T:80.  Don't throw away perfectly
good disks...