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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!tedcrum
  2. From: tedcrum@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ted Crum)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Using HD disks as DD disks
  5. Date: 24 Dec 1992 20:34:19 GMT
  6. Organization: University of California, Berkeley
  7. Lines: 10
  8. Distribution: usa
  9. Message-ID: <1hd6sbINNsvq@agate.berkeley.edu>
  10. References: <jeric.67@berkp.uadv.uci.edu> <1992Dec23.202219.114@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> <1hb8h7INN4t6@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu
  12. Keywords: disks, disk drive
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  16. Could the original poster be running afoul of one of the unformattable
  17. format programs? I find these odious. To get the convenience of a dos 5.0
  18. format without unformat files being written, I use Norton 4.51 safe format
  19. using the "dos format" option. It readily formats hd 3-1/2's to ld. So will
  20. dos 3.3 if you remember the options to use. I bet 5.0 works if you can
  21. defeat the unformat provision.
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  23. -Ted Crum
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