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| Subject | Re: External 3.5" floppy drive |
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| From | Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> |
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| Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:56:25 +0100 |
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In message <almarsoft.4389838432528447246@news.orange.fr>
Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> However, didn't some versions of Windows (95? 98?) have an option to
> format to around 1.8Mb by discarding a lot of "nonessential" stuff? I
> wonder if a generic USB floppy drive can read those?
At first I thought you were talking about FDFormat, but then I
remembered what you were referring to. I found this:
http://www.winimage.com/wimushlp/wini1a1y.htm
So we aren't in such a minority, but I guess you can't install Win 98
from a USB floppy system then.
--
Jess Iyonix
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External 3.5" floppy drive Mark Wiggin <mark.wiggin@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-03-27 16:23 +0100
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive Martin Wynn <m.wynn@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-03-27 16:57 +0100
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-27 09:46 -0700
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive Mark Wiggin <mark.wiggin@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-03-27 20:10 +0100
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-27 20:10 +0200
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2012-03-27 21:13 +0100
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-27 21:32 +0000
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive Mark Wiggin <mark.wiggin@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-03-28 10:56 +0100
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive Grahame Parish <spamtrap@millers-way.net> - 2012-03-28 12:02 +0100
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-28 14:04 +0200
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-28 14:56 +0100
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-03-28 22:50 +0100
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive Folderol <folderol@ukfsn.org> - 2012-03-28 23:19 +0100
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-29 02:32 +0200
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-29 22:41 +0100
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-29 02:24 +0200
Re: External 3.5" floppy drive Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-03-29 01:31 +0100
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