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Converting a 1.4M floppy to 800M???
Name: El-Trucha Date: February 13, 2005 at 10:39:35 Pacific OS: System 6.1.5 CPU/Ram: 68000 CPU/4 MB
Comment:
Hello every1!! :D OK, I posted something yesterday about my Mac Plus:
This is kinda different, because now I have a PowerBook 520c with a WORKING floppy drive...ok, I have an image of a Mac Plus boot floppy, and a bunch of PC-formatted 1.44M floppies... (I also have some 800K Mac-formatted ones but they're full of bad sectors...) Is there any way to format these floppies as a 800K?? I know the Mac Plus can, but the PowerBook asks me for a double-sided floppy when trying to burn the image!! :( So, is there?? Thanx!! ;)
Name: Zno2 Date: March 3, 2005 at 08:46:37 Pacific
Reply:
im not sure if you can do this on a mac but on windows you can scan them and try and repair any bad sectors
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Response Number 2
Name: El-Trucha Date: March 4, 2005 at 15:59:39 Pacific
Reply:
Huh?? wtf, I tought I already answered to this message!! :| I said that I just put tape on the high-density sensor of a 1.44M disk... Thanx anyways!! ;)
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