![]() So yes, format a 720kb floppy in windows, it will work, but you cannot then put that in the amiga, format it, then put it back in the PC and have the PC read it. Buy now PowerISO full clean version Another tool that can help you create virtual floppy disks is Magic ISO Maker, and it works in a similar way as Power ISO. Oh, and amiga didnt use 720kb, it was 880KB or ~1.6MB (rarer) - because of the spin speed of the disk (300 rpm as I said above) they could fit slightly more on the disk. Why can't you just accept that a PC will NOT read an AMIGA FORMATED disk as standard. The Disks them selves are basically the same, and you can usually put an amiga formatted disk in a PC, and format it for use on the PC, but to directly read/write in AMIGA file format, or read AMIGA stuff from the disk, it cannot be done on a PC without a special drive or piece of hardware, as stated above. If you can get DOS loaded on the machine and it has a standard floppy interface (not USB), then you can use Dave Duffield's imagedisk to create a disk image of the floppy. I would guess that the OP is having this problem:įormatting a 720K floppy disk over USB fails with Windows 10 I have an old 386 that I have built to read old floppy disks on 3', 3.5', 5.25' and 8' floppy drives. I've just formatted an Amiga magazine cover disk on my PC.ģ.5" Floppy disks are DD or HD, the PC doesn't care what's on them or how they've been previously formatted.
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