Re: General question regarding formatting floppies...

[Mike Andrew]

On Monday 09 July 2001 12:05, Bill Day wrote:
> They are ext2... but windows refuses to format them...  actually, during
> initilizing, then when it moves to format it completely locks
> windows(imagine that) on at least 3 different windows systems

Yep, it can't get at the first sector of the floppy and goes belly up. from 
*memory* in dos type

format/u a:

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