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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: formatting floppy diskettes
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.143110.1688@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 14:31:10 GMT
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>What can I try next?  Could someone describe (or point me to) other possible
>ways to format a diskette (including actually writing a C program to do it).
>I actually tried to write a program to do this once but I managed to mess
>up yet another diskette when I attempted to write track 0, sector 0.

Try copying format.com from your original
DOS diskette onto your hard drive. Also
check for viruses (?)





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