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From: tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Which DOS should I get? (again)
Keywords: DOS
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.230303.19778@novell.com>
Date: 5 Apr 91 16:47:08 GMT
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1991 23:03:03 GMT

In article <1991Mar31.195238.24513@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> daver@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Ruby) writes:
>I've upgraded from a 720k drive to a 1.4m drive on my 286, I can only format
>1.4m disks.  format /4 gives me "bad track 0" errors.  I'm 
>figuring that I need to upgrade to dos 3.3 at least.  Does this make
>sense?

No. Instead try format a: /t:80 /n:9
You were trying to format a 720K diskette to 5.25" 360K format... doesn't work.
If you want to switch to another DOS, wait a couple of months for 5.0. Much
better than 4.01 and you can install it without destroying any of your data
(unless you want to get rid of silly multiple partitions).

Tony


>
>Does anybody know the differences between dos 3.2 and 3.3 (and how
>about 4.01?).  
>Does anybody have a history file of dos?  I'd be curious about the
>differences between the various dosses as they progressed from 1 to 5.