formatting a pc-amiga disk

[A4000_Mad]

I want to format a pc disk (on the pc)so that it can also be read on my amiga

:huh: Any chance you mean that you want to put an Amiga floppy disk in your WindozeXP computer and format it so that both your PC and Amiga can read it?

If so the correct command is:-

Format A: /t:80 /n:9





Just used the command on an Amiga disk then put it in an A1200 Desktop and it works fine :pint:


On the Amiga you have to double click on PC0 which is usually in Workbench:Storage/DOSDrivers.

If using a 1.44MB PC disk in a HD drive on the Amiga, see the post by Matt_H above :-)

[Tomas]

Piru wrote:
@rkauer

format a: t:80 n:9

That is wrong.

Why dont you tell us the correct command then? Your comment is not very helpful either.

[Tomas]

DrDekker wrote:
Although you cannot format a 720K floppy from WinXP's desktop, I'm pretty sure I've formatted a number of floppies from WinXP's command prompt using:

C:\>format a: /f:720

I dont know the proper commando,  but i know that the 720k flag has been removed from both the format gui and the cmd prompt under winxp. I still cannot understand why the microsoft devs decided to do this. :-o

[DrDekker]

Well my mind's definitely on its way out - just tried C:\>format a: /f:720 and it's a no-go.

However, I've also tried C:\>format a: /t:80 /n:9 as suggested by Thomas and A4000_Mad - and it works a treat!  Thanks guys. :-)

[Piru]

@Tomas

Why dont you tell us the correct command then?

Because the correct command was already posted to this thread before.