On Feb 20, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote:
They are currently MSDOS formatted (fat16).
I'd like to format them for her Wallstreet (OS 9.2.2).
I opened disk utility and could see the zip disk and erase it but
couldn't change the format.
Is this even possible?
Perhaps all zip disks are DOS formatted?
You should be able to formate them for the Mac using ZipTools. Unless
they were Mac formated at the factory, they usually come in DOS or a
cross platform DOS/UNIX format that's readable by pre-OS X Macs and
PCs... you can read/write to that formate but not run first aid/disk
recovery programs on those disks.
You usually need to find a Windows machine to formate (deeper than
initialize) the Zip disks in DOS.
Sandra Ragan
www.plumdigital.com
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