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  • Subject: RE: Explaing the difference in PC vs AS/400 disk... ¤¤¤¤¤¤
  • From: "Svensson, Joakim" <joakim.svensson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 11:33:30 +0200

Hmmm...   That special formatting program is in your BIOS. The only
thing you need to do is to change the sector size from 512 to 256 (or
the opposite?), then a FDISK followed by a FORMAT.
I've done it several times, no sweat at all..

/Joakim

Joakim Svensson
IT-Architect
Cap Gemini, Sweden


>-----Original Message-----
>Back when I was doing the F35 -> 510 upgrade, the SE that was helping me
>removed the load-source drives from the F35 and told me that they could be
>reformatted and used in a PC... but they needed a special formatting program
>(that he had, of course).  He offered to reformat all 4 of them, if he could
>keep 2.
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