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formatting floppies to 1.77MB
Name: luke Date: December 20, 2000 at 07:42:21 Pacific
Comment:
Where can I find a downloadable program that will allow my to format floppies to 1.77mb
Name: Alpha Zay Date: December 20, 2000 at 07:54:00 Pacific
Reply:
I can email it to you.
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Response Number 2
Name: luke Date: December 20, 2000 at 08:00:30 Pacific
Reply:
email it to the address above.
Thanks in Advance AZ
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Response Number 3
Name: redmon Date: December 20, 2000 at 10:32:02 Pacific
Reply:
WinImage can do it. You might want to try the 1.68MB DMF format though, since its natively readable by Windows 9x/NT. If you want to use any of the "non-standard" (include 1.68) formats in raw dos mode though, you'll need to install the freeware fdread.exe TSR (which comes with Winimage, btw)
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Response Number 4
Name: bob b Date: December 20, 2000 at 16:06:16 Pacific
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