9 Jun
2003
9 Jun
'03
3:50 p.m.
On Monday 09 June 2003 10:17 pm, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Stuart Johnson wrote:
hi
To answer your question a true DSDD 3 1/2" drive can't read a DSHD, because
the media is differenent... so it can't read a disk formated in a DSHD
drive... i can't even boot my laptop to test if the reverse is true.
By the way i also have an excepted an offer from a fellow list member to send
me disks... witch i really appreciate...
James Dickens
I realize that answering one's own post
isn't the best netiquette, but I
took time to try my suggestion and discovered that Windows XP Pro cannot
format a floppy EXCEPT as a 1.44. If you have a 720 floppy and need to
format it, you are SOL. This is in the XP documentation. This is an
IMPROVEMENT? :-(
It sucks. We must all do whatever it takes to turn Bill Gates into a
millionaire.
But,...
I HAVE DONE IT.
Since I didn't have my copy of the "resource Kit", I didn't know that
it
wasn't possible (The Wiley E. Coyote principle of software development)
If I were to have known that it wasn't possible, then it would have been a
lot more difficult.
XP dropped support of formatting 720K from the desktop, and from the
command line they dropped /F:720, and dropped /F:2. But they did NOT
eliminate:
FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9
Note: I did it with a recent model Compaq; it is entirely possible that
the BIOS in some machines may pose other, additional problems. And in
future service packs, they make fix the "error" of having left in the /T
and /N.
Hmmmm. Is SETVER still present in XP? If so, then it would be possible to
use an older FORMAT without even having to patch it.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com