[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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