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From: LEE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Formatting 3.5" Diskette
Message-ID: <20972@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 9 Jan 90 22:25:13 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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I recenlty bought 3.5" DS/DD Dysan diskettes. The problem is FORMAT command
in dos would not format the diskettes. It says, "Track 0 is bad, Diskette
unusable." All 50 diskettes are same. But if I format the diskettes using
PCTOOLS, I can format them and use them without any problem. Dos doesn't
still format them after I format them with PCTOOLS.

I have never had this problem with any other 3.5" diskettes. 
What is going on?


Yongduk Lee
LEE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu