[Coco] DSK files to real 3.5" disks

Joel Ewy jcewy at swbell.net
Mon Apr 21 21:47:49 EDT 2008


Diego Barizo wrote:
> I just got a 3.5" drive to format disks and give me back a nice empty
> listing after a DIR.
> Now I want to transfer some DSK files to real disks.
> I just tried using DSKINI.EXE ,just as I did many times with 5.25" disks.
> But it just won't work. I keep getting write error on track 0 , head
> 0, sector 1.
> I used the same disk that the CoCo formatted, and also tried with
> another 2 that have MS-DOS fat.
> All the same.
> Is there something I must change somewhere? Or DSKINI just won't work
> with 3.5" disks?
>
I've used it successfully many times with low density (720K) 3.5" floppy
disks in DOS or Windows 9x.

JCE
> Diego
>
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