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format a floppy

beano1966 — Sat, 09 Nov 2002 18:13:01 GMT

hello

i have a Sony Vaio rx301 with windows xp

could anybody tell me how to format a 3.5 DD disk (720K) :smileyconfused::
When I try to format the disk I only have the choice of 1.44Mb
I changed the bios settings to 3.5 DD but then windows thought my floppy was a 5 1/4 inch drive

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William — Sun, 10 Nov 2002 15:08:03 GMT

Hi,

Sorry to sound pessimistic but I think the days of a 720 floppy are over.

Regards,

William

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EzDoezIt — Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:02:24 GMT

Open a command prompt and type "FORMAT /?"

This will show you how to format a 720KB diskette.

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William — Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:11:21 GMT

Hi Again!,

Sorry I had forgotten all about DOS although I can still remember avoiding Windows 3.1 for as long as possible.

In fact I tried to format a 3.5 inch disk using FORMAT A: /F:720 in DOS but it would not format perhaps because it had previously been formatted as a 1.44Mb.

I then tried Windows NT, this also had a facility to format a 3.5" disk as 720Kb but it also gave up.

Hope you have some previously unformatted disks as this may be the answer,

regards,

William

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beano1966 — Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:29:20 GMT

thx

Format A: works and detects that the inserted disk is DD