10 Jun
2003
10 Jun
'03
1:54 a.m.
jamesd wrote:
On Monday 09 June 2003 11:07 pm, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
I covered the hole of a preformatted 1.44mb DSHD diskette and put it
into
my Windows 2000 PC and tried to read it. It stated that the diskette was
not formatted, do I want to format it? Yes, I stated as a 720kb DSDD
diskette. It reformatted the diskette and showed the space at 720kb less
some overhead.
So on my system I could convert a 1.44mb floppy into a 720kb floppy
simply by covering the hole.
Do you need a boot disk (software) or do you need simply a formatted
720kb diskette?
Eric
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, jamesd wrote:
my question was could a DSHD disk formated using 720k parameters on a
DSDD
drive be readable on a DSDD drive was the question... i know a DSDD disk is
readaple and formatable on a DSHD drive it just that a DSHD drive can't be
fooled to write a usuable DSDD disk by covering the whole or any other
message... because the media on the DSHD disk is different.. 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