[Coco] DSK files to real 3.5" disks

Kish Tailor ktailor01 at lineone.net
Mon Apr 21 23:12:42 EDT 2008


What system are you running? Vista, XP, OSX or 98?

Diego Barizo wrote:

> I just got a 3.5" drive to format disks and give me back a nice empty

> listing after a DIR.

> Now I want to transfer some DSK files to real disks.

> I just tried using DSKINI.EXE ,just as I did many times with 5.25" disks.

> But it just won't work. I keep getting write error on track 0 , head 0,

> sector 1.

> I used the same disk that the CoCo formatted, and also tried with

> another 2 that have MS-DOS fat.

> All the same.

> Is there something I must change somewhere? Or DSKINI just won't work

> with 3.5" disks?

>

> Diego




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