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Floppy
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Name: xXx-HotShot-xXx
Date: September 18, 2002 at 17:11:26 Pacific
Subject: FloppyOS: xpCPU/Ram: 1.1 gig/786memory |
Comment: I got some new floppies to make boot disk, the file size i wanna put on them is 1.40, the size of the floppies says 1.44, when i go to properties the size is 1.38, is there away to format to the right size,thank you
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Name: fred6008
Date: September 18, 2002 at 21:53:39 Pacific
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Reply: (edit) The size of a floppy with no bad sectors on it is 1.457664 bytes. If you format /s the hidden files take the space and the formatted floppy will have command.com usually visible on it.
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