[Coco] Re: Re: Re: Disk Basic and 512 byte block floppies.

Amardeep S Chana vxlzneo02 at sneakemail.com
Wed Jan 21 00:25:36 EST 2004


<KnudsenMJ at aol.com> wrote in message
news:115.2ddcff33.2d3f0ad8 at aol.com...
> In a message dated 1/19/04 11:58:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> vxlzneo02 at sneakemail.com writes:
>
> > That said, there is one function that was removed from Windows XP: a
720K
> >  double density diskette cannot be formatted.  Existing disks are
recognized
> >  for read/write.  But they removed the option to format them both from
the
> >  GUI and the command line.
>
> Bad move.  I need 720K PC format disks to move data to/from my MM/1.  Yet
> another reason to stick with Win98 and Linux.  --Mike K.

Can't you just format them on the MM/1?






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