On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 9:09 PM wrote:
>
> I need to low level format a bunch of older 1440k floppies that are starting
> to lose their integrity. A low level format often works to revitalize them.
> But, I could not get the FreeDOS formatter to do anything but reformat the
> directory area.
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 at 02:09, wrote:
>
> Hi All:
>
> I need to low level format a bunch of older 1440k floppies that are starting
> to lose their integrity. A low level format often works to revitalize them.
Low-level formatting is really only a hard disk thing -- and an old
hard disk thing,
TNX! Bob
-From: "Eric Auer"
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
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Sent: Wednesday March 24 2021 9:16:14PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] formatting floppies
To low level format a floppy, use the /U option. You can combine it
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Hi Bob,
> I need to low level format a bunch of older 1440k floppies that are
> starting to lose their integrity. A low level format often works to
> revitalize them. But, I could not get the FreeDOS formatter to do
> anything but reformat the directory area. Can a full low-level format
> of
Hi All:
I need to low level format a bunch of older 1440k floppies that are
starting to lose their integrity. A low level format often works to
revitalize them. But, I could not get the FreeDOS formatter to do
anything but reformat the directory area. Can a full low-level format
of 1440k floppies
On 2013-11-10 09:07 (GMT-0800) Mark Brown composed:
i have a dell optiplex gx280.
first i found it doesn't support 2 floppys, only 1. fine.
now, however, 1.44 mb diskettes format fine with ms-dos 6.22,
but freedos trying to format them says:
# Boot sector unreadable, disk not yet
Dave dunfield has a floppy controller
On Monday, November 11, 2013, Mark Brown wrote:
new floppy drives, new diskettes, everything there *is* okay.
old floppy drive yields same results.
everything in the computer won't recognize second floppy drive on this
system.
everything clicks right,
Dave dunfield has a floppy controller tester. Download here
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/dos/testfdc.zip
-L
On Monday, November 11, 2013, Mark Brown wrote:
new floppy drives, new diskettes, everything there *is* okay.
old floppy drive yields same results.
everything in the computer
Dear Sir
A piece of your FreeDOS system is attached to my motherboard's
CD-ROM and I tried other day to format a new floppy by using format A: /S and
I got the message error code : 513 I Know that I need to type such command
(FORMAT A: /S) but it failed. And now?
