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From: wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner)
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Subject: Re: HPFS on a Floppy ?
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Date: 6 Jun 91 18:31:31 GMT
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In article <13201@aggie.ucdavis.edu> s142029@fred.ucdavis.edu writes:
>
>    I am just wandering, since I haven't read the manual, but is it possible
>to format a floppy with HPFS on it ?  I have tried

It is not possible,.  I think That they wanted to keep the Floppies Standard
so that you didn't think that the disks are blank and re-format them when
you are running DOS.  It probably also has something to do with the buffering 
system for HPFS that makes it work well, and the number of buffers used woud
basicly make it read the entore floppy when you first put the disk in and read 
it.   Then you get the fun of dealing with systems that don't properly do the
disk change lead thing.

Wim
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