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Formatting a 5.25" floppy disk

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Mar 15, 20266173 views
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So after the massive trouble of finding a 5.25" floppy drive and a connecting it up, then changing the BIOS so it's set as my A: drive, I tried to format a couple of high-density 1.2MB floppy disks using the "format A:" command in Command Prompt. Both times it formatted only 160KB and left it at th…

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Fix for: Formatting a 5.25" floppy disk

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Try using the /f:1200 command line parameter on the format command. Well, that is what I did back in my time on MS-DOS.

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