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Floppy drive formats in FAT?

Started by Denisejm , Mar 01 2007 11:51 PM

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Denisejm
Posted 01 March 2007 - 11:51 PM

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I just finished building my computer and the last component (for now) was a floppy drive. It works great but it can format disks only in FAT format. My hard drive is NTFS.

Why is my floppy using FAT?

Can I change it to NTFS?

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Posted 01 March 2007 - 11:53 PM

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It is not meant to be in NTFS format. Floppy's were made to be ran in FAT format because they are under 2gb and that is how much the FAT file system holds before changing to FAT32, than to NTFS. Floppys only hold about 1.44mb per disk anyway.

Hope I answered your question :whistling:
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Posted 02 March 2007 - 12:44 AM

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Ok, Thanks for letting me know . . . I appreciate it :whistling:
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Posted 02 March 2007 - 02:28 PM

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No problem

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