[Coco] Read Coco floppies in my PC

[Bill]

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

Thanks

-----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

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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