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From: winstead@faraday.ece.cmu.edu (Charles Holden Winstead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Formatting a 1.44 MB disk to 720 kB - easy!
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Date: 18 May 91 05:59:51 GMT
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How's this for easy -- 

put tape over the hole which tells your drive that it's high density.  Unless
it's a PS/2, it should automatically format low density.  (PS/2's format all
disk HD unless specifically told not to.)

-Chuck