ccs029@dino.ucdavis.edu (Val Luck) (03/31/91)
Hello: A friend told me about a neat little utility that would let you put 1800k of data on a 1.2meg 5.25" floppy.... has anyone heard of this program and is it realiable? Thanks! --Val -- ****************************************************************************** |------| _|___|_ Internet: ** Today is the tomorrow | | | | | | valuck@ucdavis.edu ** that you worried about |------| --------- ** yesterday.
u9039899@cs.uow.edu.au (Darrin Jon Smart) (03/31/91)
ccs029@dino.ucdavis.edu (Val Luck) writes: >A friend told me about a neat little utility that would let you put >1800k of data on a 1.2meg 5.25" floppy.... has anyone heard of this >program and is it realiable? There is a program called FDFORMAT (I think) that gets extra space out of floppies. Let me know if you can't find it. There is also a program called 800k that lets you get 800k out of a 360k floppy in a HD drive. Both of these programs need to have a TSR running because the BIOS has a bug that resets some disk parameters, but they work fairly well. - Darrin
noesis@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (60276000) (04/01/91)
try anon ftp to SIMTEL: PD:<MSDOS.DSKUTL> FDFORM16.ZIP btw -- this is a VERY DANGEROUS thing to do if you intend to use the disks for archiving any valuable info.
edwong@bucsf.bu.edu (Edward Wong) (04/01/91)
On 30 Mar 91 22:59:39 GMT, ccs029@dino.ucdavis.edu (Val Luck) said: > A friend told me about a neat little utility that would let you put > 1800k of data on a 1.2meg 5.25" floppy.... has anyone heard of this > program and is it realiable? I only know there is a program which let you make the disk larger. for 1.44M disks, it will go up to 1600k, and 1400 or something like that for 1.2M disks. This program has a little compatibility problem. I used to have a PC compatible 286, and it works fine. But now I got a PS/2, which is also an 286. Since this one is IBM, I guess the bios is different, and I had to run a TSR program in order to read the files. The program is called Maxi. -- 8) _ _ | user's name: Edward Wong |_ |\ \ / /\ |_) |\ | ARPA: edwong@bucsf.bu.edu |_ |/ \^/ /==\ | \ |/ | UUCP: bucsf.bu.edu!edwong
thoger@solan.unit.no (Terje Th|gersen) (04/04/91)
Hi!
The program FDFORM16.ZIP available will let you get 800k from a 360k
floppy, 1400 from a 1.2 and 1600 from a 1.44. I used the program to
store .ZIP-files on 360k's formatted to 720k. This worked OK on my
machine, but a friends Commodore PC-40 wouldn't touch them, even with the
supplied TSR installed. Most other computers seemed to agree to the
format after some coersion. I stopped using it after I found out that
disks stored for some time developed soft errors, "fixable" by a retry
on read.
Regards,
-Terje
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