Re: [SLUG] TOMSRBT -- How To Fit 2.1M on 1.44M FD?

From: Frank Roberts - SOTL (sotl155360@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2001 - 07:24:40 EDT


On Monday 30 July 2001 09:42 pm, you wrote:
> > 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?

Had the same problem.
Through old floppies; bought new ones.
Problem was solved

Frank
>
> BTW: I also downloaded tar.exe for WinZip.
>
> Thanks! Doc



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