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Subject: Floppy disk questions
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Date: 18 May 91 20:31:47 GMT
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Both of these questions refer to a '386SX running DOS 4.01,
but probably pertain to other systems also.

Question 1:
	I've heard that 3.5" low density disks can be formatted
to 1.44Mb if a hole is cut in them or if the drive is jumpered;
Is there a means of doing this with software?  Standard
format programs come back with "Track 0 bad."  Is there a
format program (say, on simtel) which will do this?  Are there
any side effects?

Question 2:
	Is there a way to boot from drive B: (on my system, a 
3.5" drive) without switching the hardware?  I'd like to
keep my 5.25" drive as A:, but still boot the occasional
3.5" disk... there must be some obvious way to do this,
but I have no idea.

Thanks,
JMC
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