Am Montag, den 14.06.2010, 16:00 +0100 schrieb Rich Mellor: > Does anyone else have as much trouble as me trying to format floppy disk > drives.... > > I have a Windows 7 (64 bit) PC with a USB floppy disk drive. > > Unfortunately, although QPC2 and Q-emuLator can normally read a DD disk, > it is a real pain to find one they can format. > QPC2 normally accesses the disk once, then waits about 20 seconds, then > accesses it further and reports format failed. > > Q-emuLator looks at the drive, then says - the media is not recognised - > it may not be formatted. However any attempt to format the disk just > fails to do anything > > Sometimes it works though... > > Infuriating! >
Hi Rich, probably has something to do with Windows 7: The Microsoft guys have removed native support for 720k formatting from all Windows 7 stuff (If you try to format a floppy with the built-in tools, it will only offer 1440k, not 720k like XP/Vista did). My windows 7 box can't do that either (be it from inside QPC or outside), while it works perfectly on XP and Vista. I help myself with a pack of pre-formatted disks I created on an XP box. Regards Tobias _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
