(SAMMY FINKELMAN) wrote: SF I have three ZIP disks are formatted for MACs. How do I reformat SF them for PCs? (Using Windows 95b or DOS) Deep One: D1 Use Iomega's software to long format them. Do not format them with D1 DOS or Windows format commands.

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I didn't really have any (besides what I us to read them) I tried the FORMAT command in the DOS box and it worked. I thought maybe that wouldn't work, being as this was an irregular drive, biuut it did, and it writes and reads files. The only thing is, I didn't get 100 megabytes, but only 98 megabytes. Formatting 94M Format complete. Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)? Feb-29 MAC to PC 98,355,200 bytes total disk space 98,355,200 bytes available on disk 2,048 bytes in each allocation unit.

48,025 allocation units available on disk. Volume Serial Number is 0D4D-12EC A: dir d: Volume in drive D is FEB-29 MAC Volume Serial Number is 0D4D-12EC Directory of D: File not found 98,355,200 bytes free D1 If you don't have any Iomega software, you can use this link to D1 download (about 4MB) a version which should be good for Win95B. D1 ftp://ftp.iomega.com/english.public/win9xiom113en.exe To do all that I would have to make a special trip to the library, hope the drive there does not spoil my 3.5 inch floppy disk and use Woindows 95, which I can't right now because my hard drive is too full. When it says WIN9x that probably means that it is good both for Windows 95 and Windows 98. There probably never was a special Windows 95 version - or maybe the Windows 95 version, perhaps improved slightly, is now called Windows 9x. What is the reason for not using the FORMAT command (aside from the possibility of making a mistake?). Click to expand.This is from Iomega's REFMAN.EXE file (it comes with their DOS software): Because DOS treats removable media drives like floppy drives rather than like hard drives, some DOS commands (FORMAT, DISKCOPY, and FDISK) do not work as expected with removable disks.

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Iomega SCSI provides substitute utilities for FORMAT and DISKCOPY which should be used with all removable disks. FDISK and DISKCOPY should never be used on any removable disk. Later, it says: The DOS FORMAT command can be used to format removable disks that have been formatted previously using the Iomega SCSI Disk Format utility. DOS FORMAT cannot perform a surface verify on removable disks, so if a disk has been generating errors, you should use the Iomega SCSI Disk Format utility with the Surface Verify option to format the disk.

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Do not use the DOS FORMAT command when preparing a removable SCSI boot disk; use the Iomega SCSI Disk Format utility with the Copy System option. I think problems can occur because Iomega uses a proprietary method of handling bad sectors which is not recognized by non-Iomega software. Special disk information is stored in the 'Z-Tracks' which non-Iomega software doesn't know about. If your disk had already had a proper Iomega PC format on it, then you probably could have used a plain DOS FORMAT command safely. But since it was Mac-formatted, the FORMAT command apparently had to do something which caused problems with the Zip disk. I'm afraid I don't know all the technical details of the situation.