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re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks -- Complete crap from Ed
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 4:46 pm
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Posted by gewg_ (3490 messages posted)

|A floppy disk which is formatted for use in Win XP
|might not be usable with Win 98,
| Ed
|
Wrong.

|because Win XP floppies can use either the NTFS file system or the FAT system.
|
Complete crap.
Any Microsoft OS, when doing a FORMAT on a floppy, uses FAT12.
If VFAT is supported by the OS reading the disk, LFNs are supported.

Written in response to:: re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Ed: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 4:06 pm)

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re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks -- Complete crap from Ed (DNA: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 6:48 pm)

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3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Mon, May 21, 2007, 2:08 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (gewg_: Mon, May 21, 2007, 3:58 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tue, May 22, 2007, 7:02 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Keith Stanier: Tue, May 22, 2007, 4:09 am)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tue, May 22, 2007, 6:38 am)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (gewg_: Tue, May 22, 2007, 8:20 am)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Ed: Tue, May 22, 2007, 4:06 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks -- Complete crap from Ed (gewg_: Tue, May 22, 2007, 4:46 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks -- Complete crap from Ed (DNA: Tue, May 22, 2007, 6:48 pm)

Thread hijack: FAT16/FAT32 on a thumbdrive (gewg_: Wed, May 23, 2007, 8:57 am)

Why FAT16?!?!? (DNA: Wed, May 23, 2007, 4:14 pm)

re: Why FAT16?!?!? (gewg_: Wed, May 23, 2007, 5:35 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tue, May 22, 2007, 7:04 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (dhm: Tue, May 22, 2007, 7:39 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tue, May 22, 2007, 8:44 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Don: Wed, May 23, 2007, 3:06 am)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Wed, May 23, 2007, 6:56 am)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Wed, May 23, 2007, 3:16 pm)

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