you try to cross-format then the format procedure will fail and the disc will need to be
suitably reformatted. Cross-formatted floppy discs are at risk of data loss.
Low-density formats include:
ADFS
640K
ADFS
800K (D)
ADFS
800K (E)
ADFS
800K (E+)
DOS
360K
(5¼" discs rarely used) DOS 720K
Atari
60K
Atar
720K
High-density (HD) formats include:
ADFS
1600K (F)
ADFS
1600K (F+)
DOS
1.2M
(5¼" discs rarely used) DOS 1.44M
With additional software, you can also read and write direct to Apple Macintosh-formatted
floppy discs.
Renaming a floppy disc
Floppy discs may be given names of up to ten characters in length. It is useful to give floppy
discs meaningful names to help identify their content or purpose. You will see the name of
the floppy disc in the Title Bar of the filer directory window of that disc.
Click MENU on the floppy disc drive icon on the Icon Bar. Move up the list of options to '
Name disc' and follow the arrow to the submenu where a writable-icon window will appear.
Type the name by which you wish the floppy disc to be known into the writable-icon window
and either click SELECT on the window or just press
<RETURN>.
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