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Subject: Re: External 3.5" floppy drive
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc
From: Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com>
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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