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From: colaluca@cs.utexas.edu (Mark Colaluca)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: problems formatting floppies with FileMan
Keywords: formatting, File Manager, floppy
Message-ID: <334@ararat.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 91 00:18:17 GMT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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 I have been having a difficult time formatting floppies using File Manager.
It seems that when I try to format a floppy, it goes through the 1%...
100% complete routine, gives the "creating root directory" message, and then
asks me if I want to format another.  I then click on the newly formatted
disk's drive, and get a "Cannot read error" or something like that.  I have
a few other people who get periodic errors formatting floppies under 3.0 as
well.  Anyone with suggestions?  This one has really stumped us.

Thanks,