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Formatting Floppy Diskettes for PianoDisc
By Larry Claus

[ Marc Kaufman wrote:

> Any floppy disc should work.  The difference between 720 KB and
> 1.44 MB is single-side vs. double side.  They are otherwise the same.

A HD floppy disk has two "holes", one for write protect and the other
for the computer to sense as HD.  Put a piece of tape (electrical is
good) over the one used for sensing (doesn't have the sliding door for
write protect) and the computer will think it has a 720K disk to format
and use.  I can't help with the later Windows problems, but there might
be a command "switch" that would work.

A HD (1.44 MB) can be used as a 720K disk as described above, but it
is not good to try to make a 720K disk into HD 1.44 MB due to density
issues and data loss (it works on some disk but not all) and you need
to make that other hole.

Larry Claus


(Message sent Mon 30 Mar 2009, 14:12:26 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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