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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: how do I re use vendor 3 1/2 floppy, wont format
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>The next question is, how do you do this? I have this problem (720K disks
>and a 1.44 mb drive, and have looked in my DOS manual, but cannot find
>the switch to use to format these disks. I have DOS 3.3.

Well, heres how:

type:

FORMAT A: /N:9/T:80

or if you have DOS 4

FORMAT A: /F:720

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