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In a pinch, put a piece a tape over the notch on the left side of a 1.44 high density 3.5 inch floppy and it fools the 800k drive into thinking it's not a 1.44 disk. (not the side with the right-protect slider tab, the other one). Then use the Apple II to reformat it as 800k.
All Cobey has said is right :-) . I only want to add that, even in the cases the floppies do format, the data written on them is highly unstable - most times, it "evaporates" in a few days. Do not use a 1.44 Mb disk as a permanent storage for anything, use them only to transfer data between computers (and do not delete the information from the source computer until it has been read by the destination one). The difference in media Cobey refers to is that 1.44 Mb disks have a higher "coercity" (that is - you need a stronger magnetic field in order to write into them), and because of it, 800 Kb units aren't able to write those disks properly. They may be able to write a signal strong enough to be read right after, but with a little loss, the signal may well render unreadable.
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