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Kjell - 29 Apr 2004 16:56 GMT

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In my new computer with Windows XP I can formate 1.44 M disks but not 720 K disks. Is this a limitation of the system or with the drive. Is there any program that can fix it

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Duh - 29 Apr 2004 17:25 GMT

It's an XP limitation, see this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302113&Product=winxp

> Hi
> In my new computer with Windows XP I can formate 1.44 M disks but not 720 K disks. Is this a limitation of the system or with the drive. Is there any

program that can fix it?

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Kjell - 30 Apr 2004 10:26 GMT

Thank you for the answer
Do you have ant suggetions how to fix it?

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Bob Willard - 30 Apr 2004 20:52 GMT

> Thank you for the answer!
> Do you have ant suggetions how to fix it?

Run W9x, or W3x, or DOS.

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Cheers, Bob

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