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Alternate formatting prg.

Name: Banfield
Date: November 6, 2009 at 04:31:13 Pacific
OS: DOS 7.10
CPU/Ram: AMD 486 120 MHz 32mb RAM
Product: Umc / V 1.7, 3.3, 3.4
Subcategory: Software Problems
Tags: dos7.10

Comment:

Hi all guy´s. Does anybody know any freeware alternate program for formatting disks, in this case a pen drive, that format.com refuses to do (and from windows 98 format ok) Best regards. Osvaldo from Banfield, Buenos Aires, Argentina If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

Name: IVO
Date: November 6, 2009 at 08:09:45 Pacific

Reply:

Choose one from the latest versions and try http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc... FreeDOS software archive.

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