[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.
>
>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
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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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