26 Apr
2005
26 Apr
'05
5:59 p.m.
In this specific case, the software should've
either told you it needed
the disk you were writing to be pre-formatted (I would assume it mentions
it in the docs) or it should give you the option to format the disk before
writing. In the very least, it should've made it obvious to Zane that it
was having trouble writing the disk. Apparently it didn't, and that's
just crap programming.
In all fairness to the author, it might say something about this in the
documentation. However, the software is so easy to use that I never looked
at it.
At the same time, give the nature of the program, and the fact it should
take an almost exact amount of time to write a disk image, giving that
amount of time would have been a good hint.
OTOH, the fact that even knowing I need to format the disk first I can't get
a working floppy created is enough to drive me crazy. I should have been
smart and tried a different program to write the disk images...
Zane