Question about floppy disks

[InTheSand]

I still use floppies too - for a few older games and demos that won't install to HD, or for use on my A1000 when I sometimes boot that up.

I also make use of them for small file transfers - it helps that my PC has a Catweasel in it, so it's easy to use DD disks as a transfer mechanism.

Anything of any importance is already backed up on to CD or DVD though for archiving purposes.

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Hi,

This comes up a lot - Windows XP will allow you to format a 720Kb disk, just not from the formatting GUI.

To do it, open a command prompt (a.k.a DOS prompt) and type the following:
format a: /t:80 /n:9

Another XP-based program that might be of interest regarding all sorts of floppy formats is OmniFlop, which will allow your PC's disk controller to read/write a multitude of disks (including Atari ST, various CP/Ms, Sinclair, Acorn/BBC, etc). It won't read/write Amiga disks due to PC disk controller hardware (you'll need a Catweasel for that) but it's still very useful and it's free.

 - Ali