On Sunday 08 July 2001 17:50, Bill Day wrote:
> I took what few remaining floppies I had and formatted them with linux via
> kde/kde2/condole jsut to get a basic feel... however, I attempted to use
> (each one no less) in a Windows box to create a floppy for a PB restore
> setup and connot reformat the floppies for use with DOS/Windows...
>
> Am I missing something... The disk is fine, can put it in Linux, mount,
> write to it and retrieve from it, but cannot reformat the disk for
> Windows...
>
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated on this.. I dont wanna go buy a
> box of floppies as I rarely use them.. cdrw is too kewl to use floppies
> 8-)
>
> TIA,
Sounds like they are formatted ext2 instead of FAT. Don't know why you
couldn't reformat them....... When you mount them in linux, what filesystem
does it say is on them?
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