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From: sammy@cbnewsd.att.com (Sammy)
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Subject: Re: how do I re use vendor 3 1/2 floppy, wont format
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Date: 15 Jun 91 03:57:17 GMT
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In article <1991Jun13.211714.8750@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@obelix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
>
>disks are 720 K. Many 1.44 mb drives (like the ones on three of my
>machines) have to be specifically told that they have a 720 k disk in
>them or else they won't format. They will *not* format a 720k disk as
>1.44 mb (they are sensitive to the hole), but the DOS format command
>is not cleaver enough to use this info to switch the formatting to 720
>K, so I have to do this explicitly.
>
>kartik

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.

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