Date   : Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:45:53 +0000
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Re-using floppies

On 21 March 2010 06:58, Mike Tomlinson <mike@...> wrote:

> But don't buy HD ones. ?Even if they seem to work, they are the wrong
> spec and you will lose data.

I've read somewhere that this a combination of the issues of magnetic
coercivity and the fact that modern HD floppies come preformatted as
FAT12, so so reformatting them with a double-density format doesn't
work properly. The same thing I was reading went on to say that the
disks are close enough in spec to work if you erase them in a bulk
eraser first, then use them as DD disks. I have no idea if this works
though, not having access to a bulk eraser.

-- 
Alex Taylor.