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September 4, 2003 at 11:22 pm #2317494
can we increase the capacity of floppy disk?
Lockedby cyrusmak · about 18 years, 8 months ago
I mean can I re-format the floppy.
I don’t want to compress it.Topic is locked -
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September 5, 2003 at 4:09 am #3379128
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by simon monaghan · about 18 years, 8 months ago
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Yes, there used to be a 1.7 meg format program for floppys. I have a copy on CD somewhere, though I would prefer it if you tried a google search for a download since I am not sure if I still have my copy!
Simon.
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September 6, 2003 at 10:44 am #3379861
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by cyrusmak · about 18 years, 8 months ago
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it will not be standardise
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September 5, 2003 at 4:54 am #3379116
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by deadly ernest · about 18 years, 8 months ago
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As said above you can, but you are then VERY limited in the sue of those floppies as they will only work on a syatem that has the same special floppy formatting program installed. Better to just burn to CD or get an external Zip drive or a USB drive.
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September 6, 2003 at 10:44 am #3379862
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by cyrusmak · about 18 years, 8 months ago
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it will not be standardise
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September 5, 2003 at 1:55 pm #3380027
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by thechas · about 18 years, 8 months ago
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On a practical basis, you cannot increase the capacity of a floppy disk.
You can squeeze a bit more out of the disks IF you format them on a PURE DOS 5 or 6 system.
Windows loads a few files onto a floppy when it formats. That is why a floppy has 1.38 instead of 1.44 MB free space.To transfer large files via floppy, you can either use a compression program to span files over multiple disks. You can set the program to use no compression. Or use 1 of the file splitting utilities to span the file over multiple disks.
Other options:
find a 2.88MB “floptical” drive.
USB thumb drives.
Flash media readers.
CD-R / CD-RWChas
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September 6, 2003 at 10:44 am #3379863
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by cyrusmak · about 18 years, 8 months ago
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it will not be standardise
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September 6, 2003 at 2:20 am #3379934
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by jackofalltech · about 18 years, 8 months ago
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Assuming you’re using W98 or lower, there is a freeware DOS program FDFORMAT (www.cdrom.com). It will format any floppy to 1.7MB and it WILL be readable on any other drive EXCEPT where the OS is NT4 or higher.
Ralph
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September 6, 2003 at 10:44 am #3379864
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by cyrusmak · about 18 years, 8 months ago
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it will not be standardise
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September 6, 2003 at 10:47 am #3379858
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by cyrusmak · about 18 years, 8 months ago
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