Although now that I've done another Google search, I've come up with a completely different person who claims to be the current maintainer, so perhaps I sent the e-mail to a past maintainer who just hasn't admitted abandoning the thing yet. The format program will then prompt you to format a floppy so then switch to the floppy disk you. So the automatic decision making in the thing definitely writes 0xF0 as the media descriptor of the image file, which makes it extremely perplexing to me that the program wouldn't allow specifying it explicitly.īy the way, I've received no response from the supposed maintainer of dosfstools yet. At the command prompt type format a: /f:720 and press ENTER. Right-click on the 'My Computer' or 'Computer' menu and from the available options, click on Manage.
Step 1- Go to Computer and click on Manage. floppy144.img: 0 files, 0/2847 clusters Fix 'Windows 10 Unable to Format Floppy Disk'. Root directory starts at byte 9728 (sector 19)ĭata area starts at byte 16896 (sector 33) In order to format a 720k disc in Windows XP you will probably have to use a 1.44mb disc and put tape over the hole at the top left of the disc.looking from. Media byte 0xf0 (5.25" or 3.5" HD floppy) After formatting a floppy disk, format displays the following message: Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none) To add a volume label, type up to 11 characters (including spaces). Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
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