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Carol Haynes:
If you have WinXP you can format a DOS disk in the same way as Win98.

If you have a Win98 installation CD boot from it and go into DOS then you can use format A: /S to format a DOS floppy.

Alternatively there are DOS floppy images that can be downloaded on the internet.

f0dder:
If you have WinXP you can format a DOS disk in the same way as Win98.-Carol Haynes (January 19, 2009, 02:12 PM)
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Hmmm? I don't think I ever had that option? Is this only available if you did an upgrade from 9x to XP?

Carol Haynes:
This is what it looks like on my system (formatting a floppy disc):



Note I only ever had Windows XP installed on this system.

The ability to format system floppies was reinstated after the complaints when MS removed the function in Windows 2000.

Alternatively see: http://www.bootdisk.com/

f0dder:
Hm, either I never had that option, or it's only enabled... floppy discs. Can't remember when I last had a floppy drive in my box, might have been with win2k, and removed once I moved to XP? That was years ago anyway :)

At any rate, the option wasn't available for my USB pendrive, so I had to "do trickery" TM.

a_lunatic:
New firmware released this afternoon works but some are having problems still.
http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=5536
I am not sure I want to try it yet till there is more feedback as I can't afford to brick 3 drives.

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