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| DOS学习入门 & 精彩文章 （教学室） » A very newbie question~~ why is my floppy disk only 1.38MB? |
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| Floor1 kevin882 | Posted 2004-01-25 00:00 |
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I want to make a Super MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk. So I downloaded Wengier's Super MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk. I wanted to extract it and then COPY it to a floppy disk, but formatting a new floppy only gives 1.38MB. It can't fit the Super MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk's MSDOS710.IMG. What should I do???
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| Floor2 wk9568 | Posted 2004-01-25 00:00 |
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You can use software called: Alkonost MaxFormat to format your floppy disk to a capacity of 1.72M or 1.55M, then you won't have to worry anymore about not being able to fit files larger than 1.38 or 1.44Mb. http://www.freedomcn.com
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| Floor3 kevin882 | Posted 2004-01-26 00:00 |
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Oh!!!
Many thanks!!! |
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| Floor4 zhang_ming | Posted 2004-01-26 00:00 |
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It's normal for your floppy disk to be 1.38, it would be abnormal if it weren't. You can use some software to process the floppy disk, but let me tell you, don't get too greedy, because the more free space left after compressing a floppy disk, the slower the read speed. And it also does a lot of damage to the floppy drive, so you'd better also buy a really sturdy floppy disk~
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| Floor5 kevin882 | Posted 2004-01-26 00:00 |
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Actually I've never really felt that confident about floppy disks, they've caused me a lot of misery several times! I'm using a USB flash drive now, but can a USB flash drive boot DOS??
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| Floor6 超人荻加 | Posted 2004-01-26 00:00 |
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Exactly!! The quality of floppy disks nowadays really is terrible!!
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| Floor7 kevin882 | Posted 2004-01-26 00:00 |
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Does anyone have any good floppy disks to recommend?
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| Floor8 iceboy | Posted 2004-01-26 00:00 |
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Go buy Microsoft's floppy disks
 Really, they're even better than Sony's |
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| Floor9 紹杰 | Posted 2004-01-26 00:00 |
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My floppy disks used to go bad often too, but later I put moisture-proof pellets inside the floppy disk box. That way the floppy disks weren't so likely to go bad..
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| Floor10 kevin882 | Posted 2004-01-28 00:00 |
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Are moisture-proof pellets those water-absorbing beads??
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