Windows

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.

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.

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-RW

Chas

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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