No. Now that systems can boot from CDs, CD-Rs, and CD-RWs have for the most
part replaced floppy disks for storage media. Most new systems don't even
ship with floppy drives. Windows XP has done away with that older floppy
format. The only 3.5 floppy formatting available in Windows XP is for the
1.44 MB format.
| Does anyone know whether it is possible to formatt 3.5
| disks in the old 2DD , 720KB using windows XP
| professional???
720KB DD floppies can be formatted in XP, but you'll need to do it from Command
Prompt (Start > Run > cmd). If you try to use the regular XP floppy format
feature to format a 720, XP will try to format it as a 1.44MB floppy and screw
it up beyond repair except through use of a DOS unconditional command line
format.
At the prompt in Command Prompt, just enter format a: (or format a: /q
for quick format), assuming it's not an unformatted floppy. Floppy size will be
detected automatically.
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Sure it is (depending of course on your hardware). You just have to get
the right driver. In fact, the article cited above (KB309623) is the
explanation for why floppies formatted on non-XP machines often are not
usable (can't be read or formatted) on some XP machines. For a
solution, read the following and then download and install the driver: http://tinyurl.com/r3y1
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