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Operating System Specific Discussions => Other Operating Systems => Topic started by: kedawa on November 12, 2012, 02:23:15 AM
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I recently picked up a 3.5" floppy drive from a neighbour and installed it in my PC. I figured it would be useful for checking out old floppies before I use them in my A500.
The problem is, it only seems to like HD floppies. Even known good DS/DD floppies can't be read or formatted. Is this a limitation with the floppy controller, the drive, or the OS?
I know that with 5.25" drives, vista will only work with 1.2MB disks/drives, and not the older 360KB ones. I haven't been able to dig up any info about similar issues with 3.5" disks, though.
As an aside, I've been having fun trying out KolibriOS, MenuetOS and DexOS, and I was wondering if there were any other operating systems or games that boot from a single floppy that I should check out.
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In Windows XP you had to format from the command line if you wanted to use 720K floppies (there was a command parameter you need to add to the command).
Windows XP itself would not allow you to do a fresh 720K format from its GUI, only from the command line. I think it would allow you to re-format disks already formatted in 720K from the GUI, though.
Maybe it's a similar thing with Vista.
I'm sure Googling will let you know the answer to this one.
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Ah, you're right. Now that I know what to look for, it was easy to find, and the info I needed was on an Amiga site to boot.
Format A: /T:80 /N:9
Now I just need to find a way of getting an old version of CrossDOS onto my Workbench disk.