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re: Question about 'Better Floppy Formats' Monday, December 9, 2002 at 9:39 pm Posted by Al (183 messages posted) when you right-click the floppy in MyComputer, is there not a quick format option for floppies? Al On Sunday, December 8, 2002 at 6:06 pm, Dick Morant wrote: >Windows 3.1 has a better Format floppy disk feature than Windows Millenium. It is >available in ME by clicking Start, Run and then typing winfile.exe . If you choose >Quick Erase, it will format a floppy disk quickly and efficiently. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Better Floppy Formats' Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 7:22 am Posted by surferXPro (2 messages posted) This is to all ... i tried formatting floppies both ways: in win95b and DOS 7.1 (under 95b); but i find it's still faster in win95b and only uses 36 kbs overhead verses 56 kb overhead in DOS. And i don't have to do all the opening of a DOS window and extra typing and stuff :) PS: i have XP now too. Norton Ghost 2003 just added MS DOS 7.10 back to it to make it bootable from a DVD backup if you ever lose the ability to boot up to the XP Desktop (i already have once and lost everything - that's why i now have Norton Ghost 2003 and 4 different bootable DVD backup discs of my entire system in varying configurations such as before SP1 and WMP9 and DX9, and after, etc.). My 95b has over 2 weeks uptime average between reboots and my XP's now is 70 minutes average (they gotta stop all these hourly windows updates someday). On Monday, December 9, 2002 at 9:39 pm, Al wrote: >when you right-click the floppy in MyComputer, is there not a quick format option >for floppies? Al > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Formatting Floppy Disk in XP Wednesday, February 11, 2004 at 1:15 pm Posted by Greg (1 messages posted) Does anyone have a clue on how to format floppy disks in XP? I've tried everything and with each attempt the system changes the error message to conclude why it will not accept the a: drive command and format the disk. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Formatting Floppy Disk in XP Tuesday, April 13, 2004 at 5:23 am Posted by Bonnie (1 messages posted) Close your anti virus program. On Wednesday, February 11, 2004 at 1:15 pm, Greg wrote: >Does anyone have a clue on how to format floppy disks in XP? I've tried everything >and with each attempt the system changes the error message to conclude why it will >not accept the a: drive command and format the disk. > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum