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re: Reformat used floppies
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 3:53 pm
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Posted by DEX (11765 messages posted)

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. -- Chinese proverb --

Because win2k is NOT a DOS O.S. you will need to go to a PC that is running DOS ,win98,etc. Then put the disk in the drive and type format a: /s This will make it bootable

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On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 3:05 pm, Jerry Ciral wrote:
>Thanks for your interest. Yes, this certainly reformats a diskette but it doesn't
>appear to make it bootable. I'm trying to update my BIOS with a suitable floppy.
>I have the update data on the floppy in the "A" drive which is supposed to install
>it when I restart my computer but this doesn't happen!
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Written in response to:: re: Reformat used floppies (Jerry Ciral: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 3:05 pm)

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re: Reformat used floppies (DEX: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 4:01 pm)

re: Reformat used floppies (Jerry Ciral: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 4:02 pm)

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Reformat used floppies (Jerry Ciral: Tue, May 22, 2007, 5:28 pm)

re: Reformat used floppies (DEX: Tue, May 22, 2007, 6:50 pm)

re: Reformat used floppies (Jerry Ciral: Wed, May 23, 2007, 3:05 pm)

re: Reformat used floppies (DEX: Wed, May 23, 2007, 3:53 pm)

re: Reformat used floppies (DEX: Wed, May 23, 2007, 4:01 pm)

re: Reformat used floppies (Jerry Ciral: Wed, May 23, 2007, 4:02 pm)

re: Reformat used floppies (DEX: Wed, May 23, 2007, 4:25 pm)

re: Reformat used floppies (Jerry Ciral: Wed, May 23, 2007, 5:25 pm)

re: Reformat used floppies (DEX: Wed, May 23, 2007, 5:38 pm)

re: Reformat used floppies (Jerry Ciral: Wed, May 23, 2007, 6:54 pm)

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