[Coco] Read Coco floppies in my PC

[Chad H]

Bill...may I make a suggestion if you ate stuck with XP only on that pc...

Make you a ms-dos boot disk (floppy or CD) and inlude FORMAT.COM on it....whrn you boot from that disk, you will have no problem formatting your 360k media

Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:


>Unfortunately, my supplier ONLY had these three 1.2Mb drives.

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>Thanks

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>-----Original Message-----

>From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On

>Behalf Of Michael Graham

>Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 11:30 PM

>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts

>Subject: Re: [Coco] Read Coco floppies in my PC

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>Just FYI, most double-density (360k) drives won't read double-density 

>disks written on high-density (1.2M) drives.  I tried this when I first 

>got my PCjr, and it didn't work, so I had to swap the 360k drive back 

>and forth between my PCjr and my old desktop machine until I could 

>source another 360k drive.  I couldn't get disks written in a 1.2M drive 

>to read on my CoCo, either.  However, disks written with a 360k drive 

>will read back just fine on a 1.2M drive, as long as you don't try to 

>write to them.

>

>On 3/30/2012 8:20 PM, Bill wrote:

>> The drives I just got are 1.2Mb, and I have tried several times to format

>a

>> 360K disk, but for some reason it won't let me. I type in the command

>format

>> b: /f:360 (which SHOULD work), but it gives me an error message.

>>

>> Has ANYONE been successful formatting a 360K disk in XP with a  1.2Mb

>drive?

>>

>> Thanks

>>

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