Hi,

> On Mar 23, 2025, at 7:20 PM, victoria crenshaw via Freedos-devel 
> <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> i cannot seem to format blank unformatted floppies
> it fails to verfiy the disk after formatting the 1st 7 sectors even
> though the disk will format on other format programs
> 
> anyone have an idea how and why this happens?
> 
> i may of found a use case that was not captured
> --
> founder of yellow rose group 💛️

Just a couple additional questions…

What version of Format? There were a lot of changes to format a couple months 
back. 

What type of diskette? 3-1/2, 5-1/4? 1.44, 1.2, 720, 360, other?

When you say “unformatted”, do they require a low-level format or just a DOS 
file-system format?

:-)

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