> DOC Perhaps this will clear things up for you.
>
> 1. a 1.44 floppy can actually be formatted with a 1.44 drive to the
capacity
> of 1.72 megs.
> This is done with what is a Extended format with DOS 6.22 and Win Dos MODE
> you can use a DMF format with IBMDos it is XMF .
>
> ALL 1.44 floppy drives can read this except if you are using dos 6.12 or
> less
>
> If you want you can also download a program called win image this is a
> shareware util. You will see what you can do with this.
I really appreciate all of the guidance! I found Win Image here:
http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/merrow/788/appz.html
Problem, do I need recent manufacture disks to get this 1.72 non-standard
format
to "take"?
Every time I run Win Image to format my existing disks it finds multiple
errors on the
physical floppies. It has been quite a while since I bought any new disks,
could that
be the problem?
BTW: I also downloaded tar.exe for WinZip.
Thanks! Doc
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