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Re: Apple 2 disc formatting questions
- Subject: Re: Apple 2 disc formatting questions
- From: "Donald A. Newell Jr." <donewell@charter.net>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 22:53:53 -0600
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: The Free Electron
- References: <qML_7.2815$fG.9288@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:16223
I have had success by getting IBM 720K disks, initialising them by the
system finder, then formatting them with appleworks.
The appleworks say they are only 761K avail. (instead of 800K)
IMATION still sells 400K, 800K (IMN40758) and 1.44MB for the applr/Mac.
Good luck.
"Mad Martian" <news@madmartian.com> wrote in message
news:qML_7.2815$fG.9288@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net...
> 1. What do I have to do to an IBM formatted disk to reformat it on an
Apple
> 2? It gives me an "initialization error" if I try to format a disk that
has
> been previously formatted on an IBM. Blank unformatted disks work fine.
>
>