They are ext2... but windows refuses to format them... actually, during
initilizing, then when it moves to format it completely locks windows(imagine
that) on at least 3 different windows systems
On Sunday 08 July 2001 17:00, you wrote:
> 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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