On 14 Jun 2010, at 16:00, Rich Mellor wrote:
> 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!
I have just successfully formatted a totally new DD floppy disk using QPC2 on
Windows Xp. This took a minute. The instruction I gave was:
format 'flp1_Dab*D'
George
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