[Coco] Read Coco floppies in my PC

[Chad H]

Sorry for typos...dang droid touch screen..
Anywhoo..don't thonk building another PC is necessary IF the format 360k issue is your only problem....just make Win'98/Ms-dos boot disk and FORMAT when you boot off that

Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:

>So you think I need to build a little Win98 box?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
>Behalf Of Chad H
>Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 11:48 PM
>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Read Coco floppies in my PC
>
>Your problem I think is Xp....I just tried formatting a 360k disk in my xp
>pc that has a 1.2mb floppy and also get error...it will read/write 360k pc
>formatted disks fine, but not FORMAT them itself... The Win '98 pc DOES
>format 360k disks perfectly with its 1.2 mb drive.  Also the other floppy
>now in my xp machine used to be in a 98 box and it formatted 360k perfectly
>then
>
>Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
>
>>Bill wrote:
>>> The drives I just got are 1.2Mb, and I have tried several times to format
>a
>>> 360K disk, but for some reason it won't let me. I type in the command
>format
>>> b: /f:360 (which SHOULD work), but it gives me an error message.
>>>
>>> Has ANYONE been successful formatting a 360K disk in XP with a  1.2Mb
>drive?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>>There is no point in trying to use WinXP or DOS commands to format disks
>that 
>>will be used with a Coco or Coco disk format. Besides which, if you have
>Coco 
>>disks with data on them, why would you want to format them as that would
>erase 
>>the data?
>>
>>You want to be able to read/write these disks as Coco disks. Since you have
>
>>WinXP, you can't use any programs that rely on DOS as it does not exist
>with WinXP.
>>One simple way to access these disks is to use the VCC emulator. However,
>you 
>>must also have fdrawcmd.sys installed as explained in the VCC "Welcome to 
>>VCC.pdf" file.
>>
>>http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd
>>
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