Most floppy disks come out of the box 'unformatted'. That's just not good for Atari, what uses for instance 800 KB (10 sec/tr) a lot.All flavours of DOS (MS-DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS, etc) have all had the external command FORMAT since version 1.0. More chances are that will work only with HD and 18 sector/track = 1.44 MB. And drives getting old too + quality of latest manufactured ones is really not good.īut there are special problems with USB drives - work only with strict DOS formats, so 9 sector/track with DD disks = 720 K - if supports at all that format. Generally, floppy disks are now very old, new ones are not manufactured, so it may be really lot of unreliable work. But obviously that was wrongly formulated question at thread start. What I said in my first reply here - 'Get USB floppy drive' was just answer for "1.44MB floppy drive that can create MS-DOS compatible floppies". Even in those instances, I've found it impossible to copy from/to these disks or to format one. Most disks, disks that read good in other systems mind you, are lucky to read at all. I've tried four different versions and had nothing but bad luck on my Windows 10 64-bit system. Unless you guys have had a lot more luck than I have, I wouldn't put much faith in USB floppy drives.
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