19 Aug
2007
19 Aug
'07
5:55 p.m.
On 19 Aug 2007 at 19:22, Dave Dunfield wrote:
Windows and even "bare" DOS try and read
block 0 to see what kind of
disk it is - if it's unreadable in a certain way, it fails with "track
0 bad" ... You can't even format these disks.
Well, DOS 6.x had the /f switch on the FORMAT command--which told DOS
to forget about trying to read the disk, just format it. I believe
that DOS 7.x ignores /f. And for DOS, there are always third-party
formatters.
Cheers,
Chuck